Forget Mindfulness, we need mindless Sustainability
I was once solemnly informed "We won't get to Sustainability without Mindfulness." If you don't know what Mindfulness is, it's apparently "the intentional, accepting and...
Are we afraid of success in sustainability?
Feb 27, 2015
As regular readers will attest, my most recent soapbox has been the use of the 80:20 Rule to get sustainability programmes out of the mire...
The Circular Economy is Circular, Stupid!
Feb 23, 2015
I saw this explanation of the circular economy in the business section of our local rag last week and it made me grind my teeth. It...
Most leaders don’t understand that leadership is critical to sustainability
Feb 17, 2015
An anecdote from another consultant this week really resonated with me. He had a meeting with a C-level executive at a major client about an...
The Rules of the Game – but whose rules?
Jan 19, 2015
At the weekend I finished reading The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton - the coruscating inside story of the doping scandal that rocked the cycling...
We are all ethical – until we go to work…
Nov 21, 2014
Interesting piece of research doing the rounds in the media where they found that bankers were more honest when they weren't thinking about being bankers. This...
The Littlest (Sustainability) Hobo
Oct 8, 2014
I've got a really random and retro ear worm. I can't get the theme from 'The Littlest Hobo' out of my mind. You know the...
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...
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,...
When the penny starts to drop…
Jul 9, 2014
In his brilliant lead article in BusinessWeek last week (being a Brit, I read the magazine a week late), Mark Hertsgaard points out a revolutionary statement...