Does your corporation intend to be in business in another 100 years? Adding a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) to your C-Suite may make the difference. But do enough CEOs understand the sustainability role and why it matters? It's not clear. A new report from The Weinreb Group, CSO Backstory II: The Evolution of the Chief [...]
Women may be leaning in, or at least talking a lot about what that means as business leaders, but they are not doing the greatest job getting their voices heard. Instead, men are still perceived to be narrating business. It follows that men have also taken the lead in using social media to build their [...]
If corporations want to find, nurture and keep the leaders who will drive more responsible business practices, they must focus in on something new and non-linear: values-based thinking. Their perfect recruits will be individuals who are less willing to drop at the office door the values they so comfortably use to navigate their personal lives. [...]
We are living in history-making times. Thanks to "edtech" partnerships like Coursera and edX, free, world-class university courses in a wide range of topics are now offered online. And, the potential for educating people in the ways of more sustainable business thinking (among many other topics) - and for students at any level - is [...]
Photo by Robert J. Pennington, courtesy RhizomeImages.com Originally published in The Huffington Post, September 13, 2011 What if your thought leadership got you very little recognition today but contributed to an incredibly significant cultural shift that made a positive difference for generations to come? It is an interesting question at a time when business leadership [...]
If you were ever knee deep in research about traditional business leadership traits and sustainability leadership, like I am due to my Master's thesis work, you'd see the very clear connection between the two. Being a forward or future-oriented thinker, and being able to see issues as interconnected, in a more holistic manner, are two [...]
If you follow me on Twitter, you could likely tell I was pretty excited about being able to attend the University of Michigan's (my alma mater!) commencement in early May, where President Obama spoke. It was an incredible experience, and I left inspired to think differently and to see life through a new, more socially [...]
