Green Business Is Just A Fad
I'm taking a day off today, so I've handed over the reins of Green Business Confidential to special guest Hugh Jim Pakt, CEO of DirtyCorp...
When the going gets tough…
Jul 20, 2011
Regular readers will know that three days a week I go for a run along the Ouseburn river valley up into Jesmond Dene and back...
Storytelling
Jul 18, 2011
I was delighted at the weekend to be sent this amazing picture by Melvin Redeker of him reading The Green Executive while on a kayaking...
Living in the Real World…
Jul 15, 2011
When I first got started in this business I used to get patronised a lot. "It would be nice to [be greener]," these grey haired...
Green Business Confidential: Stretch Yourself
Jul 13, 2011
Here's the latest Green Business Confidential podcast, entitled "Stretch Yourself" - it's about how incremental targets are a false friend. Or, you can download it...
Leadership vs Management
Jul 11, 2011
The central theme of my latest book, The Green Executive, is that 'green' has been elevated from environmental management to business leadership. But what does...
Don't Print This E-mail…
Jul 8, 2011
Why do people still include "Think of the environment, Don't print this e-mail unless you really have to." in the thicket of information in their...
News of the Screws and CSR
Jul 6, 2011
It's hard not to feel a bit of schadenfreude over the plight of the News of the World ex-editor now News International bigwig Rebekah Brooks...
Integrating sustainability into the DNA of your organisation
Jul 4, 2011
How do you actually embed sustainability into the DNA of your organisation? Well according to my Sustainability Maturity Model (above - click to enlarge), you...
Think like a 4 year old. Why? Read on…
Jul 1, 2011
My eldest, Harry, is four and a bit years old and like most kids of his age, he's the king of the cheeky killer question,...