Once upon a time, Corporate America was a homogeneous culture -- white, male, local, and Christian. Today, we consider America a melting pot of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. There's also the development of outsourcing and technologies that allow us to work across...
Ralph Thurm believes that games have the potential to create "epic wins." Thurm, director sustainability and innovation at Deloitte Netherlands is, of course, referring not to our inane desire to play Call of Duty all day but the collective intelligence required to...
In honor of Thanksgiving, I thought it fitting to reflect on pioneers of past and pioneers of present. Remember the allure of Little House on the Prairie? Pioneer life -- aside from being rough and wholesome -- was exciting. Before anything was established and...
Coro Strandberg of Strandberg Consulting is well-known and well-respected throughout Canada as a thought leader in sustainable business practices. One of Coro's more widely disseminated publications is her 2009 report developed for Industry Canada about the Role of HR...
It is funny how some articles get lots of coverage and others get little. The article that I found to be the most interesting is the one that received the fewest tweets. How could that be? There is an insurance company in Canada called the Co-operators. They have...
This article appeared in Forbes.com on 10/24/2011 Remember the old Calgon commercial portraying a woman trying to balance work, kids, home, husband? Do you suffer those Calgon moments often? Job Sharing might be more unconventional than a hot bath but it does have the...
Committing to sustainability, and taking action on it, is a critical element of today's corporate world, but without getting employees on board through a successful internal communications program, green and other social good initiatives are much less likely to...
I wrote this article for Forbes.com. When it comes to executive competency and women, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg really nailed it during her recent New Yorkerinterview. Since my time at Wellesley over 20 years ago, I have constantly learned about the struggles...
For this GreenBiz Talent Show article, I lbegged the question, "should the CEO be the CSO?" I look at PUMA and Coca-Cola. Muhtar Kent, the CEO of Coca-Cola has stated publicly that he is the company's CSO. Then he realized that the CSO is a full...
This extensive report underlines the emergence of a new executive role in corporate America’s C-suites that is powerful in scope, strategic oversight, and overall management. Featuring companies like UPS, EMC, DuPont, AT&T, SAP, Kellogg, PG&E and Coca-Cola,...