Social media expert Mitch Joel recently spoke to a business lunch audience here in Burlington, and one big point he made may have burst a little bubble for many a company considering a jump onto Facebook or Twitter because … Read on >
I’m pretty sure Johnson & Johnson did not intend for their ad campaign to explain why people start to engage with sustainability, but I’m certainly using their tagline that way. “Having a Baby Changes Everything,” was by no … Read on >
“I think we exaggerate the degree to which the sexes are mired in conflict.” – Nicholas D. Kristof
Americans, with help from “the media,” tend to exaggerate problems due to a) tradition – such thinking is embedded in our DNA, and/or; b) sexy “sound byte-itis” – such thinking makes … Read on >
What’s the key to sustainability? Systems thinking. What’s the sustainability systems thinker’s secret? Empathy. Who might be particularly good at contributing, and teaching, that way of thinking? Women.
My latest HuffingtonPost piece reflects the coalescing of my consulting and master’s program work toward a new research focus. How can we … Read on >
Social justice is the topic of this third, and final, installment on my experience at the Sustainable Brands 2010 conference. … Read on >
To continue with my thoughts, as inspired by Sustainable Brands 2010:
There’s something about the sustainability topic that helps align a businessperson’s personal/human and work values. This … Read on >
When people see that their neighbors have more energy efficient households, it GETS them! My absolute hero (and someone whose work I am closely studying for my master’s thesis), Robert Cialdini, is now leveraging his “social proof” compliance technique for sustainability purposes. A New York Times article by Saqib … Read on >
There’ve been a lot of write-ups of lessons learned and ideas shared at the recent Sustainable Brands 2010 conference, and – because I, too, learned so much – I thought I’d add to the online resource. I paid attention to three specific areas – consumer engagement, business trends and … Read on >
“The End of Men,” a cover article for the July/August issue of The Atlantic written by feminist scholar Hanna Rosin, got me thinking about our extreme cultural pendulum swings. Do we really need to swing from seeing women as wholly unimportant to seeing men as wholly unimportant? My gender … Read on >
