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Date: June 2008Muhammad Yunus talks to students at MIT about Grameen, how social businesses work, and tells them that "each of you has the power to change the world"

Corporate governance is not an area usually associated with vision, imagination, or even integrity. This needs to change.In this lecture I have looked at corporate governance through the eyes of William Blake.Blake was a visionary, a man to whom imagination, energy and integrity were central. I argue that much of the compliance burden companies face is self-imposed. Business creates the problem when it begins its approach to every new code by saying “how do we comply” instead of asking “What is the spirit of this code? Do we accept it? If yes, how do we fulfil the spirit?

In this article, Matt Gitsham, Chris Gribben and Patricia Hind of Ashridge Business School argue that to successfully embed corporate responsibility and sustainability within organisations, there needs to be a focus on developing the mindset and skills of individual managers, rather than simply introducing new policies and procedures.

This article contains the profiles and photos of the first group of the founding 'Force For Good' Pioneers. We will be announcing more in due course.

We wanted to find the people who had created a positive impact for society or the planet in the normal course of their business. We wanted them to tell their stories. These are the force for good pioneers.