The article emphasizes the importance of learning from sectors like military, education, and public health to enhance small and medium-sized businesses. It explores how cross-sector insights can lead to effective corporate citizenship and strategic practices, encouraging companies to adapt in a rapidly changing world characterized by complexity and interconnection.
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Category: Critical Thinking
How Do We Best Communicate Our Company’s
The article discusses corporate citizenship and the importance of effective communication regarding a company’s sustainability and ESG practices. It highlights various examples, historical context, and motivations for small and medium businesses to embrace these initiatives. By sharing goals and impacts transparently, companies can foster trust and reap the benefits of their efforts.
Greenwashing — Value Signaling, Tricky D
Is it Greenwashing? Who or what needs to change? 10 questions and 8 examples for your inner Ethicist and Private Investigator 🕵🏽♀️ Greenwashing, in its pure case, is making showy statements about a generous and/or responsible action, while suppressing information on the much larger, negative impact of other corporate practices. It is a form of […]
How Do I Know if a Company is Actually D...
And what can I, as an individual do? Practice and encourage increased energy efficiency, practice the 4Rs, believe in the power of small groups, and look for the quality certifications You might justifiably say, 100 companies emit 71% of the greenhouse gases, what can we as individuals possibly do to move the dial? This article is for […]
The Way We Make Impact is Changing
It’s a wild and exciting thing to see the corporate and non-profit mindsets coming together– embracing a little complexity in analytics and realities, and doing well, while doing good. Folks are seeing that doing business better, listening to all stakeholders, managing for the long-term, and doing good… can be good for business.
Not what they seem – statistics and unde
The Corona-era reveals or uncovers a lot — about humanity, about our society. Much of it is beautiful, like shared music on balconies, and generous donations, etc; unfortunately, some of it is not. This pandemic has really laid bare some of the inequalities in our system (driven by systemic, often unconscious -isms)
How to read and filter the news – what i
I don’t know who to believe anymore. Everyone seems 2 b lying. Well, does it pass the “smell test”? and the snopes test? Journalistic standards and Qs to support your critical thinking.
How are we making decisions? and what mi...
There are so many, great videoconferencing options. Choose based on what makes sense… do a little research, and don’t decide based on founder’s birthplace, until you see what s/he has done since.