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Are women better entrepreneurs?
Are Women the Best Leaders for the 21st Century? From John Knights – Chairman, LeaderShape: Follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/@leade...
Feb 7, 20134 min read
EROEI and the end of growth
Why has there been so little recovery since the 2008 economic slump? Fiscal or monetary, austerity or stimulus, economists and...
Feb 6, 20133 min read
Guanxi – what it is and why it (still) matters
Images from “East meets West” by Yang Liu @Yang Liu Design,www.yangliudesign.com Guanxi – what it is and why it (still) matters After...
Feb 5, 20134 min read
Caterpillar treads on in China
Caterpillar treads on in China To be fair, not all is gloom and doom for Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of...
Jan 30, 20133 min read
Financing A Sustainable Economy
As the World Economic Forum comes to a close in Davos, the hot topic has appropriately been building sustainability into our global...
Jan 28, 20132 min read


Fewer Swords, More Plowshares: A Marine Rethinks Defense
William S. Becker Energy and Climate Policy Expert, Natural Capitalism SolutionsWith a new foreign policy team about to join the Obama...
Jan 23, 20139 min read
Tackling China’s “Airpocalypse”
Pictures of people emerging from a murky haze with facemasks firmly in place and satellite images showing a white cloud covering Beijing...
Jan 23, 20133 min read
Crippling short-termism - the real issue is still being avoided
(Image credit - William Warby) The real issue on short-termism – the preference of shareholders in UK public companies for high...
Dec 19, 20124 min read
Known Unknowns: 2013-2018
ZeroHedge's article ‘Key Global Event Risks for the Next Five Years (The Known Unknowns)’ highlights the potential events over the next...
Nov 20, 20123 min read
London 2013
This year has been far from dull. London in 2012 has been marked by historical triumphs and dramatic scandals. The London Olympics gave...
Nov 16, 20122 min read
Too late for two degrees?
Although scientists are hesitant towards making a judgement about the cause of Hurricane Sandy, most have accepted that climate change...
Nov 9, 20122 min read
Obama 2.0: A Coalition Government?
by William S. Becker Executive Director Presidential Climate Action Project As Barack Obama found during his first term, it’s nearly...
Nov 8, 20125 min read
NZ island powered entirely by the sun
Tokelau, home to about 1,500 islanders, has become the world’s first territory to run entirely on solar energy. The New Zealand territory...
Nov 7, 20121 min read
Social Capital: An economic driving force
There has been increasing evidence that social cohesion is critical for societies to develop sustainably and flourish economically. ...
Nov 5, 20122 min read
Organisational cultures are no accident - create one, or it will be established by default
Posted by Tony Manwaring 'UBS $2bn rogue trader shock' proclaimed last week's headlines, the reverberations will be felt for some time to...
Oct 4, 20123 min read
Bill Becker on Climate Change in the US Presidential Campaign
The Obama and Romney campaigns are making the point that there are big differences between the positions of the two presidential...
Sep 28, 20124 min read
Stewardship Lessons from NewsCorp
by Mark Goyder In 2002 I wrote “Lessons from Enron”. It was story of power, fear and greed by the people at the top of the company. The...
Jul 13, 20123 min read
System change - lessons from the past
System change – lessons from the past The abolition of the slave trade From the inception of the slave trade in the early 16th century up...
Jul 4, 20127 min read
Gorbachev: Rio+20 Should Deal with Climate Change
by Bill Becker On the eve of the United Nations’ Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, a task force created by Mikhail...
Jun 21, 20124 min read
Tomorrow's Value lecture by Gervais Williams
by Gervais William Thank you Tony, and thank you CIMA for the invitation to speak this evening. What a wonderful venue this is. I...
Apr 3, 201211 min read
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