Articles
NEW - Technology and the daughter of technology, globalization. The business views from East and West on how this new world is affecting and being affected by corporations. With additional views on the role of ethics, spirituality and religion in today's corporations. Read here (.doc 56k) an interview with Prabhu Guptara
(Director, Organisation Development, Wolfsberg Executive Development Centre of UBS).
The business case for Emotional Intelligence (pdf 108 k) by Cary Cherniss, Ph.D.
Measuring wealth with happiness (pdf 184 k) by James Montier of the Global Investment Strategy
An interview with Herman Wijffels, an intriguing and broad canvas drawn around corporate citizenship, moving from business behaviours operating in 'cocoons' to a true global perspective. Views of a service-oriented business world which will justify their profitability and sustainability. Click here to read his inspiring interview.
An article from SiB chairman Sander Tideman
A series of recent business scandals and events .... show that traditional economics and business does not seem to work for everyone. Leading economists are now criticizing their own orthodoxies, alternative economic policies and indicators are being studied. Western capitalism and Infinite material growth models make us aware that economies and business donīt function separately from our decisions, so if we want a better economy we have to look deeply at who we are and how we live. GDP growth and financial profits are not positively correlated to human well-being.
Click here to download his article as a Word file.
SiB Sustainer Sam Yau offers his view of leadership, the same leadership style that allowed him to transform his company with a six fold increase in the value of the enterprise he was leading. The connection with the inner life of a leader.
SiB advisor Peter Pruzan, professor at the Copenhagen Business School offering his views on "
Developing Corporate Consciousness and Conscience "
Two articles from our
SiB Steward Frank Dixon. The first one was published on Ethical Corporation Magazine and introduces the concept of Total Corporate Responsibility, achieving both sustainability and real prosperity.
Read it here. Frank also worked with our chairman Sander Tideman on the Gross National Happiness index, presented at the forum held in Bhutan in 2004,
click here to read the article.
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