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Burn Up.  Or burnish it.  Can business ever look good on TV?
posted by John Williams  on July 30, 2008

I am sure some of you in the UK watched Burn Up recently (BBC on 23 and 25 July), an epic tale of climate change and bad behaviour in the oil industry...

 

It did make me wonder if business can ever get a fair representation on TV or in films.  In every hospital drama, from Holby to House, it is the administrator who is the pantomime villain.


Remuneration rant
posted by Mark Goyder  on July 28, 2008

Last Monday Lucy Kellaway in the FT did a provocative column criticising governor of the Bank of England for not taking his pay rise.
 
He’s made a mistake said Lucy. Capitalism is all about money, not self-denial.
Hence my response.


To print or not to print....
posted by Kate Rieppel  on July 25, 2008

In this day and age nearly everything we read and communicate is through the computer.   And I don’t know about you, but it is killing my eyes!
So I, like many others, occasionally print out the unnecessary email or article, and glance at it with every intention to return to it later. Ultimately it gets filed into the pile of other papers covering my desk, and chucked into the recycling bin at the next big clean.
I began working recently with Tomorrow’s Company and noticed the ever increasing green tag lines on many corporate and private emails sent to the office. I had not encountered this before as most of my email correspondence is not with the business world, so I was surprised and a little bemused about the whole thing. 


Creating value in the 21st century:  the ‘value matrix’, modelling ‘business success + sustainability = forceforgood’ (3 of 3)
posted by Tony Manwaring  on July 24, 2008

Blog 1 argues why business success + sustainability = forceforgood; Blog 2 gives loads of examples; Blog 3 develops a model to better understand what is going on and discusses the importance of supporting the innovation that will need to underpin these new models of value – a model which underlines the importance of creating the frameworks that will enable forceforgood solutions to be developed at the scale required to drive business success and really secure sustainability.

 


Creating value in the 21st century: examples of how ‘business success + sustainability = force for good’ (2 of 3)
posted by Tony Manwaring  on July 24, 2008

Glimpses of 21st century value creation are breaking through.  There are plenty examples which show how being a forceforgood will be the next great source of competitive advantage.  But not yet nearly enough – the pioneers are blazing the trail, but to achieve scale and reach the tipping point which will unleash this next wave of value, we need many more who like Rajeev Dubey of Mahindra will argue with conviction and passion that “concern for sustainability is good for business, & a lack of it will ultimately destroy us”.

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