The next Spirit in Business world event will be the co-hosted conference of the Spirit at Work Awards.

This will be held at the Princeton Club in New York, October 21st - 22nd.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - 20/24, June 2005
Co-organised with the Shambhala Institute and GPI Atlantic - "Rethinking Development: Local Pathways to Global Wellbeing (2nd Gross National Happiness Conference)".

Last October, the Great Leaders - Good Leaders SiB event of the year was held in Zürich. Under-titled Be one, make a difference, it challenged the 200 speakers and invited guests to deepen their understanding and practice of leadership. CEOs and entrepreneurs shared experiences in a highly interactive forum where personal values, character and capacity for balance were nurtured.

Founder and CEO of Amana-Key in Brazil, Oscar Motomura on how can we effectively help competitive, short-term oriented business executives to transform their mindset, challenge their assumptions about the purpose of the corporations they lead, test their own intentions, raise consciousness. How can we help them to develop a statesman/woman view of the world thus enabling them to position their companies - not in the "market" - but within society as a whole?

Download his view of a company with spirit...

How the ANZ Bank, one of the top 100 banks in the world, embarked on a values-driven journey supported by McKinsey, transforming its people and consequently its (financial) bottom line.

Download an outline of the journey of this year's winner of the International Spirit  at Work Awards.

Herman Wijffels, Chairman of the Dutch Social and Economic Council, former CEO of Rabobank - on how corporate citizenship legitimises profit, a far reaching article going well beyond the standard CSR jargon. Read more in a private interview...

The latest book from Peter Senge ...
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers. How would the world change if we learned to access, individually and collectively, our deepest capacity to sense and shape the future ? This is just one of the questions posed in a book that combines unusual personal honesty with rigorous critical thinking.

Amongst the variety of publications on CSR, the UK Magazine Ethical Corporation stands out for its in-depth professional coverage of international news. If you are interested in signing up for one of their free regional online newsletters, or subscribing to their widely acclaimed print publication, you will be eligile for a discount as a member of SiB (how to become an SiB member) please find details at this link.

How are the slogans of multinational corporations changing ? Here is an inspiring one with which Kyocera leads its workforce of over 60,000 employees (by the way its profits are up 175% '04 vs '03): "Respect the Divine and Love People." Preserve the spirit to work fairly and honorably, respecting people, our work, our company and our global community.
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Bestfoods Asia and Tex Gunning, who inspired the book "To the Desert and Back" The story of one of the most dramatic business transformations on record.

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