Sustainability – No Place for Wimps!
We are too nice. Yes, us, people who are passionate about sustainability, in our spotless fleeces, our well scrubbed faces and neatly trimmed beards. All...
Pinning Down the Business Case for Sustainability
Dec 14, 2012
I spent yesterday running a sustainability strategy workshop for directors and senior managers of a FTSE100 company. They didn't disappoint - they challenged, they argued,...
David Cameron, Cognitive Dissonance and Clarity
Dec 12, 2012
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said: The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the...
Are Quick Wins A Good Thing?
Dec 10, 2012
There's an old time management trope where a professor stands in front of his class and fills a jar full of rocks and asks is...
What We Can Learn from Wales’ Waste Win
Dec 5, 2012
Last Thursday I went to the North East Recycling Forum Annual Conference - one of the few events I intend as a punter. This partly...
I need YOUR Pearls of Wisdom! (again)
Nov 5, 2012
The last three Christmases I have published "Pearls of Wisdom" - short compendia of wise words on CSR/green business/corporate responsibility. The first two (2009 and...
The Sustainability X Factor
Oct 31, 2012
Long before the phrase was demeaned by cheap TV talent shows, 'X Factor' referred to that difficult to ascertain quality that set the best ahead...
Creative Destruction and Sustainability
Sep 28, 2012
We're in the midst of party political conference season and one thing you will notice in any discussion about sustainability and climate change is the...
Lashing yourself to the mast
Sep 10, 2012
"We haven't a hope in hell in meeting this target, but we're going to try anyway." "The management redefined our target to one which we...
Sustainability Drivers Template
Sep 5, 2012
Here's a simple graphical template I developed for brainstorming sustainability drivers and internal factors - effectively a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis. Despite...