Something has been bugging me for a while now. It’s not a new issue but something that has been slapping me on the head daily for the last few months more than it has done in the past. Maybe it is the continued economic struggles the world is going through. Maybe it is the Occupy [...]
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Is Sustainability Just A Band-Aid?
Posted in activism, Africa, business, business realism, business strategy, capitalism, cars, climate change, co-responsibility, community, companies, compensation, consumers, consumption, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, cost, CSR, CSV, culture, earnings, emissions, energy, environment, ethics, global, global warming, leadership, manufacturing, money, mutual responsibility, poverty, products, profits, public responsibility, purpose, realism, recession, responsibility, revenues, Shared Value, shareholders, society, sustainability, Uncategorized, value, values, tagged capitalism, consumption, CSR, environment, parity, products, profits, purchase, shared value, society, sustainability, system on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
How about some “activist realism” for business?
Posted in activism, activist realism, activists, business, business associations, charity, co-responsibility, communications, community, companies, consumers, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, engagement, ethics, green, leadership, messaging, mutual responsibility, NGOs, nonprofit, partnerships, philanthropy, profits, realism, responsibility, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, tagged activist realism, business, business realism, CSR, NGOs, shareholders, stakeholders, sustainability on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t planning on writing a blog today but this piece in my favorite newspaper, The Guardian (yes, I am the typical lefty reader), made me roll my eyes. The piece is very well intended and generally pretty good advice for charities – Charity funding: How to approach business for help. I agree that charities [...]
Build it (green) and they will buy?
Posted in activists, brands, business, climate change, co-responsibility, communications, companies, consumers, corporate citizenship, CSR, CSV, environment, global warming, green, marketing, messaging, products, responsibility, Shared Value, sustainability, tagged communications, consumers, CSR, environment, green, sustainability on July 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Everything seems to be turning green. And there is nothing wrong with that – companies creating new, innovative products and services that are good for them and good for the environment. But consumers haven’t completely bought into this yet. A number of green products aren’t flying off the shelves the way companies anticipated. Why is [...]
Consumers, Do They Really Care?
Posted in brands, cause, cause marketing, consumers, corporate citizenship, CSR, marketing, products, purpose, responsibility, society, sustainability, value, values, tagged consumer behaviour, consumers, CSR, purpose, sustainability on April 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This post of mine was originally posted on the goodpurpose blog. Once again, I realized that a conclusion that I drew one year ago on Corpprate Social Reality still holds true: there are a myriad of factors influencing consumers’ purchasing decisions, and purpose can be a point of differentiation for brands. The goodpurpose study validates my claims. The most recent [...]
Start Dating – The Rules of (Stakeholder) Engagement
Posted in activism, activists, business, charity, civil society, co-responsibility, communications, companies, corporate citizenship, CSR, culture, engagement, global, mutual responsibility, NGOs, nonprofit, Oxfam, partnerships, responsibility, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, transparency, value, values, tagged activists, business, civil society, co-responsibility, companies, CSR, mutual responsibility, NGOs, stakeholder engagement, stakeholders on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Can you remember the first time the two of you got together. The stolen looks, the uncomfortable moments of silence, the tripping over your sentences, the sweaty palms, the he-likes-me-he-likes-me-not thoughts, the private meetings when no one was looking, the uncomfortable first meal together. Yes, I am talking about stakeholder engagement. Just as with any [...]
The Birth of a Unionist (Part 1) – Meeting Mr Cunningham
Posted in activism, Africa, business, civil society, co-responsibility, corporate citizenship, CSR, ethics, leadership, LRS, mutual responsibility, NACTU, NGOs, nonprofit, personal, responsibility, society, South Africa, trade unions, values, Wisconsin, workers, tagged CSR, Cunningham Ncgukana, LRS, NACTU, personal, South Africa, trade unions, Wisconsin on February 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I can’t help but be on the side of the unions fighting for their rights in Wisconsin and elsewhere. I am pro-union. And I am pro-business. I see no contradiction in this. As a South African (now working in the US) I saw how trade unions helped people and how they led the fight against injustice. [...]
The Mythmakers: The end of CSR. Again.
Posted in Andreau, business, civil society, co-responsibility, communications, community, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, CSR, CSV, engagement, Karmani, Kramer, mutual responsibility, philanthropy, Porter, responsibility, Shared Value, society, sustainability, terminology, transparency, value, values, tagged Andreau, Corporate Sustainability, CSR, CSV, Kramer, Porter, semantics, society, sustainbility, terminology, value on February 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It feels like 1990 all over again. How many times do we go through these arguments that CSR is dead or CSR isn’t a very good description or that CSR is so yesterday. It seems as if we are back at the drawing board again. First we had Aneel Karnani make his Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility in the [...]
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