The Personal Touch In CSR | CSR Around The World
March 1, 2010
You never know how blinkered you’ve been until those blinkers are removed.
A few days ago I spotted Michael Portillo on TV using the medieval term for Europe: “Christendom”. It was a programme about Christianity and in context, so there was nothing wrong with it.
But it makes the point, very well and very powerfully, how grounded our cultures are in a particular way of approaching life and its concomitant issues, even after centuries of change.
Hence one of the big stumbling blocks to Turkey’s accession to the EU: there are some who still say that the EU is and should remain Christian at heart. Turkey, being a Muslim country, can therefore not join.
A similar set of blinkers surrounds CSR. We in the west tend to think of it as a business strategy .. what if it was more personal than that? Read more
Sustainable Business | Still A Long Way To Go
February 16, 2010
School. Everyone has their own memories of school, how well they did or didn’t do, and why.
I’ve recently been talking to my eldest about school. He’s at the end of primary school (year 6) and I was attempting to explain how important it is to take full advantage of your years in school for your future life and prospects.
The chat was successful and we now recognise that a lot of effort is required from both of us over many years before he matures into the job-wielding adult of our dreams and aspirations.
All of which sprung to mind as I looked over a list of the 859 companies kicked out of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) at the start of this month: a lot more time and effort is required, by all parties concerned.
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The Perplexing World of Imperial Tobacco | FTSE 100 Website Reviews
January 7, 2010
Have you ever had one of those “non deja vu” moments? When you think you should be able to remember something you’ve already seen before, but try as you might you can’t remember what it is you’re trying to remember?
It’s a bit like walking into a hardware shop and staring at screws, before realising that it wasn’t screws you went out to get but was it …milk? No. Er, bread perhaps? No.
So you say “hang it all” and buy the screws and go home. Mid way through putting up a shelf, you realise you were supposed to pick up the kids from school 20 minutes ago and dash madly out of the front door.
Coming to the Imperial Tobacco CR website left me with similar feelings of confusion. I started off on the home page and, as always, was happy to see “Corporate responsibility” prominently displayed on the main site menubar.
Then I clicked on it and had to do several double takes .. where was I? Read more
The High Danish Bar | CSR Around The World
December 7, 2009
I’ve been working away in the background on a series of blogs focussed upon how CSR reporting is addressed across the world. Unexpectedly, this is the first in that series.
Out of the blue a colleague emailed me a copy of an article written by Niels Jørgen Langkilde, Director of the Copenhagen Climate Network Secretariat and a former Danish MP.
The article highlights new advertising guidelines due to come into force in Denmark next year which are so stringent they make it all but impossible for a compay to claim it or its services or products are “sustainable”, “green” or “environment-friendly”. Read more
The Sharp End of CSR
December 1, 2009
It’s not beyond the realms of imagination to say that on 10th March 1876, in a small electrics shop in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the bloodiest conflicts in African history received a significant boost.
On that day, Alexander Graham Bell said “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” In the next room Thomas Watson heard these words through the magic of the telephone.
Nearly 100 years later, on June 30th 1960, The Republic of Congo gained independence from Belgium and a long tussle over its mineral wealth began. This has been especially intense in the past decade, with over 3 million people lost as a result. Read more
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