Category: Blog
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The Forgotten Factor Driving the Rise of Sustainable Investing
The convergence between sustainability and investing is driving systemic change in the capital markets. Bloomberg estimates that ESG investing – which involves taking into account Environmental, Social, and Governance considerations in addition to financial factors – will represent a third of global assets under management by 2025. In her recent article, Anna Alemani draws attention to…
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A Conscious Innovator Takes on Big Data & Human Rights
In July 2022, our Board member Sashi Edupuganti was humbled and honored by CxO Outlook as one of the 10 most inspiring entrepreneurs. While we celebrate his achievement, we want to give our community a chance to get to know him better. Every time you or I go online, the trail of our digital footprints…
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Can Lawyers be Conscious Capitalists?
By Soledad Matteozzi We are used to identifying conscious businesses with companies that take ownership over their impact on the planet and are built around values to make positive change. Great companies such as Patagonia, Unilever, Natura come to mind. However, we may not tend to think of law firms as conscious organizations. I will…
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Gavin’s Friday Reads: The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
History doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it can illuminate possible futures. This is a central point in this book by Timothy Snyder, who is among other things the Richard C Levin Professor of History at Yale. He has written extensively on the emergence of autocracies. One of his other recent books is On Tyranny: Twenty…
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Communicating Towards Consciousness: PR Leaders in Conscious Capitalism
By Alessandra Simkin, Board Member, Conscious Capitalism CT Public relations professionals are too often known as the people you need to call when you have a scandal that needs cleaning up, but I argue that this stereotype is outdated and generally inaccurate. In fact, PR leaders are really the people at the table who aim…
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Friday Reads: How to design a Sailing Ship for the 21st Century by Kris De Decker
For today’s Friday Reads, I decided to offer a close read of two significant lines that have been tumbling about in my head this week. One is from David Sloan Wilson and the other is from David Attenborough. I think these may have given me a new and simpler way to explain the benefits of…
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Friday Reads: Power to the Edge by David S. Alberts & Richard E. Hayes
In my work in the Agile business community, I have long been fascinated by the “hidden gem” nature of this report. Its findings support so many of the points Gavin Watson has been making in his Friday Reads series.
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Conscious Leadership Through the Lens of Two Simple Quotes
For today’s Friday Reads, I decided to offer a close read of two significant lines that have been tumbling about in my head this week. One is from David Sloan Wilson and the other is from David Attenborough. I think these may have given me a new and simpler way to explain the benefits of…
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Musings on Conscious Capitalism Strategy
Today I started a 12 month course on becoming certified as a Conscious Capitalism Consultant. As all good first days of a course should be, it provoked some new thinking for me. A question was raised. How do we as consultants expect to transform business into something more Conscious?
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Gavin’s Friday Reads: Mismatch by Ronald Giphart and Mark van Vugt – Part 2
This is the same book I reviewed last week. Last week’s review was about ancient human societies, and the contrast with our modern work culture. It was about the autonomy and egalitarian systems we crave that will also lead to high performing workplaces.