by Carol Sanford | Sep 30, 2010 | Business Development
Today, I want to recommend a blog that I have been following that I think is informing the dialogue on Corporate Responsibility in a more encompassing way that most. Chris MacDonald writes several blogs. Business Ethics Blog, Biotech Ethics Blog, Food Ethics Blog, and...
by Carol Sanford | Sep 28, 2010 | Business Development
There is No Such Thing as Social Responsibility: There is only Responsibility When I was a kid, grandparents and even extended community such as schoolteachers and Sunday School teacher never talked about responsibility as being of special kinds or classes. My...
by Carol Sanford | Sep 17, 2010 | Impact Investing
Interview with Chip Conley, Founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow This week is about new ways to understanding motivation in business. Monday’s blog surveyed the new books on the subject....
by Carol Sanford | Sep 15, 2010 | Game-Changing Entrepreneurs
Chip Conley is the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, a chain of boutique hotels that have thrived in the downturn when the rest of the industry is in a death grip. He is also a “psychologist”. Well, at least he is very connected to humanist psychologist,...
by Carol Sanford | Sep 13, 2010 | Business Development
The traditional motivation assumption is that life is about money, position or status relative to others and power over others, or some combination of these. This has led businesses to wide spread design of productivity programs and pay and progression systems that...