How can business promote the UN Global Goals, and thereby combat hunger while promoting equity, livable cities, and clean oceans? The Meaningful Business 100 offers us a wide range of practices that change lives, cities...
Category - Sustainability
Boards should carry out formal and rigorous annual evaluations of their own performance and that of their committees and individual members. Such reviews are sometimes quickly undertaken to satisfy a governance requirement...
- Board Effectiveness
- Boardroom
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Directorial
- Directors
- Leadership
- Sustainability
Independent Non-Executive Directors: Assessing Candidates and Opportunities
What should one consider when assessing candidates for a board appointment or when contemplating an initial or further directorship? What questions should nomination committees and potential appointees ask? What areas should they...
In the pandemic, we have learned the importance of community, both in person and virtual. We have learned the power of the collective to create change. Here are several leaders, some of whom are social entrepreneurs and...
A regenerative business looks at its inputs and outputs as a living system.
Words are portals and maps to guide us towards a better, more humane future. Words have the capacity to transform and inspire us to make the necessary changes to ensure a way forward. What are the words that we need to be able to...
This week I enjoyed being part of the Nature of Cities Festival. With over 2,000 people from 60 countries and 80 disciplines, the participants shared many ways in which companies and cities can work with nature to address both...
The future of boards and business and that of the economic, social and natural contexts within which they and corporate stakeholders operate are inter-related. Critical board decisions this decade will determine the prospects of...
- Board Effectiveness
- Climate Change
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Environment
- Leadership
- Sustainability
An Agenda for Business Action: Dealing with Systemic Shocks
How should the private sector address the systemic shocks of the pandemic and natural disasters amidst economic crisis? Preparing for, responding to, and rebuilding after natural and humanitarian disasters and pandemics is a...
Those of us who have been in middle management and beyond in organisations in the early part of this century would be quite familiar with the nomenclature Vision 2020. For managements, it was the most fashionable thing to do. To...