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24
Feb

Are we MOld or Gold?

Don’t read this unless you’re over 55 years old.  Or expect to be over 55 someday.  Or work for or[…]
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10
Feb

Communicating sustainability: the new PAR for the course

Last week I saw two very different groups wrestle with communicating sustainability.  One, made up of industry leaders and academics[…]
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13
Jan

The Year of the Peer

This post is a “New Year’s Recognition,” not a New Year’s resolution. It recognizes the reality we face rather than[…]
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05
Nov

Do ask, don’t tell

Two colleagues at very different stages of their careers asked me for advice recently.  Both had the same problem, though[…]
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07
Oct

Rehabbing the crippled triple bottom line

Remember “economics”? The “triple bottom line” has been around for decades. It served its purpose.  It opened up our thinking.[…]
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09
Sep

The art of reinvention

The first three people I bumped into were all in transition.  One was a corporate client who just landed at[…]
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19
Jun

The We-Me Conundrum

“I really care about society and the environment, and all the things we should do.  I really do.  But still,[…]
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22
Apr

Which comes first: strategy or capacity?

That’s the chicken-and-egg dilemma most strategists face sooner or later: Do you develop the strategy you need, despite lacking the[…]
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25
Mar

Those powerful little one-syllable Anglo-Saxon words

No, this is not going to be an X-rated blog.  It’s not about those little words, fond though I am[…]
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11
Mar

Aspirational Spring

I’ve changed the banner photo on my web site to an early spring picture, perhaps prematurely. It’s a sunny 60-degree[…]
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