For some time now we at Tomorrow’s Company have argued that those involved in financial services should commit to a kind of 'Hippocratic oath' - in which they would recognise the imperative and commit to 'do no harm'.   Learning about what is happening at the Chicago Tribune, what difference might this have made, if every key actor who was part of the value chain of this deal, had made such a commitment?

By Robert Frost


 

I came back from the launch of this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer with mixed feelings.  Admiration for Robert Phillips and his team for so totally nailing the pre-Davos agenda with their ‘right report/right time’ findings.  Respect in particular for HSBC’s Joe Garner of the panel speakers, speaking with moral authority, bearing the burden of representing banking and finance with true grace.  A quiet glow of confidence stemming from the ‘we could have written that’ vibe.  But that all pretty much pales into comparison when you face up to the stark conclusions: trust in business and CEOs is at an all time low

BlockShock!  I have been blogging on the end of the world story, based on black holes being created by the experiment in Switzerland today.  And on the state of English football - the tenuous link to forceforgood being what it tells us about ownership.  I did not expect that these two lines of thought would become one.  But much like the film When Worlds Collide, the back of today's Sun gives us a compelling image of what happens when blogs collide.  Here at forceforgood we have been debating what a force for bad might look like: presumably we might all agree that the end of the world would be one such example!  However, our commitment to global diversity, is such that our respect for our Croatian colleagues means that it would probably be going over the top to describe (yet another) defeat of the English football team in these terms ...