This blog is very personal. It’s about the loss of my brother. If you want to skip this and wait[…]
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Dreaming in PowerPoint
I’m in a mixed marriage. I think in PowerPoint. My wife thinks in Word, or sometimes in longhand-on-lined-pad. Our children[…]
Read moreRight elevator, right speech?
Do you want your most important message to be accepted or declined? You probably know the concept of the “elevator[…]
Read moreKochleffels of the world, unite!
My Midwestern American Methodist wife loves Yiddish. From the day she discovered she was a shiksa, her two favorite words[…]
Read moreRisk, resilience and the rear-view mirror
Over the last month, in client work sessions and in conferences in San Francisco and Chicago, I’ve had conversations with[…]
Read moreSustainability goals that matter
Goals can be strange things. For an athlete, shaving a few hundredths of a second can make all the difference. […]
Read moreThe Sustainability Bazaar
Walking through the bazaar in Istanbul recently, I had a sustainability moment. It had nothing to do with packaging or[…]
Read moreBrick and mortar – and marble
On a canal in Venice last month, I got to see another “public ends, private means” project that’s gone from[…]
Read moreI was wrong about CSR/sustainability reporting
I’ve been skeptical about the value of CSR/sustainability reporting. I now have to admit I was wrong. Partly. For years,[…]
Read moreFit for Purpose?
A lot of EHS and Sustainability leaders are quietly questioning their management systems. I’m hearing comments like: “We have a[…]
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