Chopra on good teams. He hits all the right buttons: Since my life’s work has always focused on self-awareness and well being, I have made those two attributes the criterion for people I want to work with. In my course, The Soul of Leadership, I advise employers not only to get references and bios from …
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Category:3 The World of Money
Genuine Progress Indicator etc vs GDP, and the outlook for society.
Economic statistics are a critical tool for managing the complex world we live in. The principal indicator has been a measure of national income, “Gross Domestic Product” or “Gross National Product”, and both are reported as aggregate and per person data. There are complexities to GDP calculation, but it is the number politicians, investors and …
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The god and bad of not having enough …
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir was reviewed by The Economist here. People can succumb to a “scarcity mindset” when they feel they have too few friends, time or calories, as well as too little money. This mindset has benefits because it helps you focus on pressing …
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Global finance is creaking. Maybe it needs a few more women to prop it up.
The chart below (The unsteady march of diversity) from The Economist tells the story that finance made a brief move towards balance a couple of decades ago, but has since reverted to a masculine dominance. Coincidentally, there have been signs of increasing permissiveness, even corruption, and a backlash of patchy regulations which have harmed efficiency …
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Roundup (glyphosate) is a broad based biocide
Here’s just one reason Monsanto is in the hot seat. According to Green Medical News: “ . . . “within the scientific community and educated public alike, there is a growing awareness that Roundup herbicide, and its primary ingredient glyphosate, is actually a broad spectrum biocide, in the etymological sense of the word: “bio” (life) …
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How Money Actually Buys Happiness
But not in the way you think. Have a quick look through this post on the Harvard Business Review blog. (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/06/how_money_actually_buys_happiness.html?goback=.gde_2827692_member_254100025 and it’s copied below in case it’s moved.) Research shows that more stuff does not make you happier, but regularly giving to people without does make you happier. Why? Because empathy is strong in …
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The Bell-Mason Diagnostic explained
A useful introduction to the Bell-Mason diagnostic from http://www.innovationmanagement.org/Wiki/index.php?title=Bell-Mason_Diagnostic THE BELL-MASON DIAGNOSTIC FOR RAISING CAPITAL EXPLAINED Silicon Valley has developed a “genius” business model. You find a genius. You build a business around him. The problem is that geniuses are hard to come by. Perhaps more importantly, this emphasis on inspired, highly caffeinated, insomniac heroes …
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Why tell lies in reports?
It’s not news that there are false claims in sustainability reports. Nevertheless, a recent post caught my eye. A post on SustainableBusinessForum.com by Elaine Curtis noted that the lying can be huge. Labor Indicators: 86% of companies claim they report and only 11% actually do. Human Rights Indicators: 62% of companies claim they report and only …
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Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)
It’s not often that you hear a conservative, traditional, esteemed financial guru advocating civil disobedience. So it is fair to let you read why they advocate an energetic voice of change. The summary is: Times are far more desperate than we think and we need to change the system to become sustainable with the utmost …
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Outlook 2013: If you haven’t found the answer yet, read this.
If you see some question about what the future holds the ideas outlined in the WFS Outlook 2013 will stimulate. Even if you have found teh answer it will still feed you brain. Enjoy it. http://www.wfs.org/futurist/november-december-2012-vol-46-no-6/outlook-2013 Outlook 2013 INTRODUCTION Human actions could become more accurately predictable, thanks to neuroscience. Nano-sized robots will deliver cancer-fighting …
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