If you buy into the concept that business is -- by design and structure -- an inherently "toxic machine", then one question that has to be asked is.... How would one go about truly detoxifying their business? While a fundamental belief of this ... [Continue Reading]
BP “buying” researchers…?
Chris MacDonald, in his business ethics blog, pointed out an article highlighting how BP was approaching the university research community and effectively "buying up" their support and silence for their upcoming legal battles. The blog entry (and ... [Continue Reading]
Career change — lessons from business transformation strategies
I came across an article today in Strategy+Business (posted to my C-View website) about managing business change, and it struck me that it was very applicable to how we coach our clients to manage/drive their career transformation -- essentially just ... [Continue Reading]
Deregulation: it’s not the “easy” answer…
A recent article from George Monbiot over at the Guardian examines the role of government and regulation in the market and looks at the new announcement coming from the UK Health Secretary regarding "streamlining regulation" in the food industry. ... [Continue Reading]
Toxic Consumption — toys
An article this morning in the local paper -- The Ottawa Citizen -- caught my eye. You can read the article here; it is planned as a three part series that looks at how illegal toxins (like lead) get into child's toys.... Of course, there is ... [Continue Reading]
BP: When a “wake-up call” probably isn’t
There is lots of discussion about how the current BP Gulf of Mexico situation is a "wake up call" for the government and for Big Oil. We said the same thing about the banks and the global economic meltdown of 2007/08. It is not that I don't think ... [Continue Reading]
More on the BP disaster
Just posted this comment to the Economist, after reading the latest article on the BP disaster and the mounting costs. The article is here; here is my posted comment: ... [Continue Reading]
Business reform, not (just) bank reform
Now that the economic meltdown of 2007-2009 is starting to shrink away in our rear-view mirror, all the talk through the US, the EU, the G20, and various other camps is centered on "bank reform". Whether we're talking about new taxes on them, ... [Continue Reading]
Labour unrest… in China
A couple of news items struck me as note-worthy over the past couple of days. One was the rash of suicides at the Foxcomm plant in China (where they make iPhones for Apple), and the other was the recent strike by Honda workers in China over their ... [Continue Reading]
Costs, the Market, and BP
One of my major beliefs (and the rationale behind much of the philosophy of the Business Detox Project) is that the world would be a much better place if we worked to price "externalities" into our market transactions. The current fiasco that is ... [Continue Reading]
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