Cyberattacks Around the World: The Race for Safety
Some argue that targeted cyberattacks and acts of cyberterrorism may be over-sensationalized, but with real-life incidents occurring regularly can we afford to ignore it? We live in a world that has become used to spectacular and daring acts of conventional terrorism. But, as with the world around us, terrorism, and the threat it poses, is […]
Social Entrepreneurs say They Face Tough Hurdles but Making Headway
Greater support from the public, governments and investors is needed to boost the work of entrepreneurs using business for social good, said industry activists and organizers after a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll highlighted these as key issues. While progress overcoming those obstacles is healthy and growing, they said at SOCAP – the largest annual conference […]
Sculptor Anthony Gormley Explores our Relationship With Urbanism
British sculptor Antony Gormley puts people’s relationships with urban construction at the forefront of his latest exhibition “Fit”, creating a sort of labyrinth in a London gallery space. “Sleeping Field”, one of the installations at the White Cube Bermondsey gallery, is made up of hundreds of iron sculptures, which at first look like small high-rise […]
Becoming a B Corporation: To B or not to B?
“Leaders aren’t born; they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.” Those are Vince Lombardi’s words, but I can relate. Leading my company through the rigorous B corp certification process changed our company’s profile and had a profound effect on the way I approach leadership. Leading an organization through […]
Business Leaders Ready to Tackle Social Challenges
The Global Opportunity Network shows us how to turn risk into opportunity. How we see the world The Global Opportunity Network Report is rooted in the tension between global risks and opportunities. The concept of opportunity offers a perspective of the world where change is beneficial, even on a large societal scale. From the two […]
The Future of Finance: Become Your own Bank
Bankers are happy to loan you money as long as you can prove that you don’t need it. Roger Ying found a better way and is making traditional banking obsolete with technology-driven tools that empower the 99 percent. Ying stepped into this brave new world and founded financial services company Pandai in 2011, after seeing […]
Eat Your Food Packaging, Don’t bin it – Scientists
Scientists are developing an edible form of packaging which they hope will preserve food more effectively and more sustainably than plastic film, helping to cut both food and plastic waste. The packaging film is made of a milk protein called casein, scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture said at a meeting of the American […]
Fears for Social Entrepreneurs in Britain as Brexit Looms Large
Britain’s role as a pioneering country for social entrepreneurs could suffer as it prepares to leave the European Union after decades of the government actively promoting business leaders seeking to do good, experts said. A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll of experts in the world’s 45 biggest economies ranked Britain third after the United States and […]
How to Create a Personal Connection With Corporate Values
It’s one thing to rationally explain your organisation’s purpose but quite another to fully translate that purpose so that employees throughout the company can connect emotionally to your mission and strategy. Lacking an alignment of stated values and lived reality, an entire organisation may suffer. In the words of management strategy author Patrick M. Lencioni, […]
Jupiter, Juno and Galileo Have Beaten Tesla Billionaire to Outer Space
In 2014 when Tesla founder, billionaire Elon Musk, announced that he wanted to establish a colony on Mars with his space company, SpaceX, he upped the stakes in the race to become the first to place humans further into space than ever before. Unfortunately, Musk just lost. As the Juno space probe approached the planet […]
