Though my time at CEIBS teaching a course on responsible leadership I have been fortunate to meet peers at other schools and within the corporate world who are looking to push their student (employees) forward on issues of society, economics, and the environment. It is a process that at times feels like climbing a sheer [...]

Last night, and this afternoon, I had a bit of a scare. A donor to one of the organizations I have been working with, a long time friend, sent me a message that she was pulling her donation because of an error I had made.  It was a simple error in failing to recognize her [...]

While shopping at my local grocery store this week, I was confronted by a member of TESCO’s staff who would not accept naked fruit. Everything had to be bagged to be weighed. When I mentioned the fact that he wasn’t thinking about the environment, he said “only foreigners care about the environment”. It was a [...]

One of the biggest issues that underlies the problem we face is the belief that we cannot act alone, or that when we something it “isn’t my problem”, however the recent Foreign Policy article China’s Missing Children highlights the role of the individual. More specifically, the respnsibility that exists at the individual level to act. [...]

The other night while speaking with my wife about achieving goals, she made the comment that I needed to think more like a rocket than fireworks. That, in the interest of achieving my “goals”, I needed to have a trajectory with a goal as the destination… versus shooting straight up in the air, looking pretty, [...]

Following up from my post last week where I said “there is going to be a HUGE market for providing that capacity “, I was asked for a few examples of where I saw opportunities for products / services. 1) Urbanization and migrants With over 200+ cities with more than a million people, and a [...]

A couple of months back while speaking to a group of 200 international students at the Global Youth Leadership Conference in Shanghai, I was asked to speak about leadership and the next generation. A keynote that I have delivered to other groups before, I decided to focus less on the intangible “leader” and “organization”, and [...]

With the conversations around systems and sustainability still largely a moving a target that bounces between emotional polar bears and destructive weather systems, I honestly cannot think of a better time for a focus on understanding the systems that exist in our economy, the impact of our economy on our environmental systems, and taking steps [...]

For many startups organizations, particularly those in the non-profit sector, finding support from volunteers can be vital. Website developers working in their spare time… An accountant to help close the monthly books… an HR Director willing to help develop HR structures and hiring practices… are all (at times) necessary engagements that can have a profound [...]

Dear Readers – it’s not everyday that I abuse my relations with you to ask for your help (by promoting what I am working on) readers, but in this case I’d like to make an exception. In short, I am now looking for 40 project partners to work with teams of MBA students from the [...]