Blog 16. January 2013 | 0 Comments
“One word of truth outweighs the whole world.” Those words, from the Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize speech, resonated with me back in the early 1970s as a teenager with an emerging political consciousness. Indeed, geek that I was, I learnt the entire speech by heart! Network: Global Network for Corporate Citizenship [more]
Blog 06. November 2012 | 0 Comments
Just back from the annual Asian CSR Forum (AFCSR) in Bangkok. As with last year's event in Manila, the sense of dynamism and optimism about the future, that one experiences in Asia Nowadays, was palpable - particularly by contrast to a more sclerotic European scene. Years ago, I used to head regularly to the USA to get a top-up of "can-do"spirit. Today, I head east! Network: Global Network for Corporate Citizenship [more]
Blog 19. October 2012 | 0 Comments
I shared a platform with Baroness Susan Greenfield, the scientist and broadcaster, in Belfast on October 17th, for Business in the Community Northern Ireland Responsible Business conference. Susan gave a fifteen minute master class on the brain, how it adapts and is adapting. Network: Global Network for Corporate Citizenship [more]