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Category: Future of Work

Corporations: Do they Care?

Which way/s will most US companies go in this emerging covid-influenced economy? B-Corps, “C” Corps:  Beneficial & Balanced? or Cruel & Controlling Corporations? While some companies are becoming more and more punitive, demanding and restrictive: Expecting employees to work 70+ hours/week to be considered “successful” The reportedly terrible working conditions in at least some Amazon.com warehouses and […]

Real Companies: Sustainable & Locally Sourced

Here’s another example of just one company devoted to sustainability practices in their business. They’ve become so popular, they can’t meet demand and thus, maintain steady profitability while “doing good”, too.   Lyle Estill started Piedmont Biofuels in Pittsboro, NC out in the backyard just to meet his family’s fuel needs, but later, upon interest […]

What is “CSR”? (nope, not “customer service rep”)

C is for…Corporate social responsibility (CSR) = the idea that a business has a responsibility to the society that exists around it   Article in FastMoney:  Corporate Social Responsibility and Companies that Solve Social Problems     Some of my (awesome!) clients are in these fields and working for these types of organizations and departments […]

Bcorps & CSR: Making a “Right Living”

  “The joy it brings, to be able to have a business that counts to people, and to me, and for people to be able to make what one of my employees called a “right living”… to work for a company knowing we’re never going to get rich, but, we are going to work in […]

CSR & BCorps: Why WOULDN’T You Invest in Companies that “Do Good” AND are Profitable?

“Harvard Business School Professors wrote an article called “Creating Shared Value”. There’s a new way of thinking about how businesses can serve. Philanthropy is the old way. Philanthropy is about sharing wealth that has already been created. A better way is to create wealth is by serving. In creating shared value… we’re going to create […]