Sustainability Strategies in an Uncertain World
I'm a news and current affairs junkie, but the news is so unremittingly grim at the minute, I'm trying to ration my intake for my...
Making Your Business Resilient with the Sustainability Masterminds
Aug 1, 2014
Last week saw the eighth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group. We rolled up to another top-notch venue, the Lord Crewe Arms in Blanchland...
Turbocharging Employee Engagement with the 80:20 Rule
Jul 30, 2014
Life isn't even. But strangely, much of it is predictably uneven, leading to what is commonly called the 80:20 rule where 80% of outputs often...
Donald Rumsfeld was right (about one thing, anyway…)
Jul 28, 2014
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary under George W Bush has long been derided for this explanation of the flimsiness of the evidence for going to war...
Prioritise everything and you prioritise nothing…
Jul 25, 2014
The UN has just released its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - when I saw there were 17 of them, my immediate thought was "how do...
Mind the Credibility Gap
Jul 23, 2014
I'm continuing to plough my way through the background information from a sustainability training course I'm reviewing for a client and it's throwing up all kinds...
Will you be a carboniferous fossil in a low carbon economy?
Jul 21, 2014
Kodak is often held up as the archetypal extinction of the digital age. The photographic film giant invented but rejected the product - the digital...
Focus on the carrots as well as the sticks
Jul 18, 2014
I'm doing an expert review of some training material on sustainability over the summer to bring it up to date. The first thing I noticed was...
Reshuffling the green pack isn’t enough, Mr Cameron
Jul 16, 2014
Yesterday's reshuffle lead to big changes in the ranks of Conservative faces in the UK Government with the commentariat pouring over the nuances of every...
Making Sustainability Boring
Jul 14, 2014
I like my routine in the morning. Most mornings, when the alarm goes, I get up, get the littlest one up and change his nappy,...