The Only Way is Ethics…
Look at the headlines. Has HSBC been helping very rich people people avoid tax? Did the Conservative Leader know about it before ennobling an HSBC...
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...
What makes a company ‘good’?
Dec 1, 2014
There was an article in the Observer yesterday on Simon Anholt and his 'Good Countries Index' that was so fascinating, I immediately checked out Anholt's TEDtalk (above)....
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...
How many wake up calls does ‘ethical’ business need?
May 26, 2014
First it was the Co-op debacle, then it was the revelation that gender pay differentials are worse in CSR than in wider industry and now...
Practising what we preach…
May 16, 2014
We're all human. And a human trait that concerns me is a tendency for some who are on a CSR/sustainability/ethical mission to give themselves a...
More Strategy Secrets of the Sustainability Masterminds
Jan 10, 2014
On Tuesday we had the sixth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) - the small group of senior sustainability executives from large organisations...
Business Ethics: Compliance vs Conscience
Nov 25, 2013
On Saturday there was an interesting, provocative piece in the Telegraph by Charles Moore on the 'Crystal Methodist' Paul Flowers/Co-operative Bank scandal. He argued that...
Banking Bad: What The Co-op Got Wrong
Nov 22, 2013
So the latest big banking scandal involves my own bank - The Co-operative holds both my personal account and those of Terra Infirma Ltd. The...
Interview with Tom Smith, Sedex
Nov 13, 2013
This is the last in my series of interviews with leading sustainability practitioners which I carried out to gain examples and pithy insights from the...