Sometimes common sense gets lost in the noise! I have been inspired listening to R. Edward Freeman, Professor at the Darden Business School, University of Virginia talking about the virtues of ‘conscious capitalism’. He talks about a new emerging narrative challenging the dominant, traditional view of what business is...
Conferences on Sustainable Living can be very tricky things! The term ‘sustainable’ can itself be quite ambiguous, even elusive. I was at one such conference a while back … which just happened to be in Letchworth … which just happens to be England’s First Garden City … which just happens to...
These days, we tend to talk freely and easily about social enterprise … but do we really have a common understanding of what we mean by it? This was the thought that sprang to mind when I read of the demise of the ‘not-for-profit’ Hadrian’s Wall Trust as set...