The issue of corporate sustainability and social engagement is persistently growing in popularity. Long has passed the time when businesses could ignore it and when there were only expectations towards the large multinational companies. While it all started with...
Doing good is something that more and more business owners are concerned with. On the one hand, we all need meaning in our lives, a bigger purpose than just making money. On the other, we are all too busy keeping our businesses afloat and trying to grow them by making...
"No company, large or small, can succeed over the long run without energised employees who believe in the vision and understand how to achieve it." These are the words of Jack Welch, former CEO and Chairman of General Electric. These are also words of wisdom that I,...
I’ve spoken about the benefits of doing good for your business before. From top talent acquisition to improved employee morale, to brand recognition, to being able to identify new market trends and niches, to increased customer loyalty and so on and so forth. Making a...
The world is changing, gradually but surely. Whether because of technology and globalisation or for evolutionary reasons, but we are slowly entering into a new age. If you consider the boom of non-profit organisations, social movements such as the minimalist movement...
The term Corporate Social Responsibility doesn’t sit well with me. In my opinion it is one of the most paradoxical concepts for some of the most misleading ‘corporate missions’. Firstly, it implies that it is something exclusively for large companies and...
The notion of corporate social engagement has been around for a while now. Whether these efforts have stemmed from a scandal that revealed the wrongdoings of a company or because of regulatory requirements and public pressure, CSR has now become an independent...
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business” said Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Corporation, almost a century ago. Ford was, as was his business, known for somebody that lives up to his reputation. With his company it was never just about...
Why not commit to a greater good? In my last article I talked about the growing need for companies to get socially involved and why this is important. Over the last 20 years, a number of companies, among which well-recognised ones such as Microsoft, Facebook,...
In my career as a business consultant I’ve partnered with various companies and communicated with different business owners. I’ve consulted large and small companies alike, as young as a few years and as old as a few decades, from accountants to solicitors to retail...