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 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...
by Carol Sanford | Sep 12, 2010 | Business Development
I reviewed Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples, by Mark Dowie. This book is about the surprising upside-down effect of the conservation movement, especially in establishing the National Park Service. Without...
by Carol Sanford | Sep 11, 2010 | Business Development
Book Review: Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie The push to save the wilderness, wildlife and rivers, whether on the North American Continent or in the Amazon, or in Burma, seems such a worthy...
by Carol Sanford | Sep 7, 2010 | Business Development
When I was a kid, I loved to figure out how things worked. I did not so much take them apart, although I did sometimes, as try them out on every possible use. I took a small motor my grandfather used for garden tools and hooked it up to an electric clock to see what...
by Carol Sanford | Aug 23, 2010 | Business Development
Vestas Wind, the global market leader in manufacturing wind turbines, posted a $185m loss in its second quarter, blaming delays in clean energy projects. Investing is a tricky business under any circumstances. When your retirement plan or the companies future reserves...