Achieving Ideal Balance between Sustainability and Disruptive Change

  One of the challenges with business sustainability has been changing traditional organizational mindsets and existing business process.  The reality is that corporate leaders most often try to sell change to the organization as a way to attain...

How Sticky are Your Sustainability Communications?

  The post, The Stickiness Factor states: The New York based firm, Media Dynamics, estimates that the average American is now exposed to at least 254 different commercial messages in a single day. There are billions of websites vying for your...

What Are The Keys to Sustainable Cities?

  What makes a city sustainable?  Is the concept an oxymoron fostering on thoughts similar to those expressed in our post, Do the words Growth, Profit, and Expansion Mix with Sustainability?   Growth, from a traditional business mindset is the goal....

The Use of Language in a Culture of Sustainability

  A challenge with corporate sustainability has been about changing mindsets and systems.  Businesses often try to sell change to the organization as a way to attain agreement and accelerate sustainable business implementation. Selling change...

Making Sustainability More than Just a Business Tool

    “A tool can be easily bought and implemented, but just as easily put down, placed in the back of a drawer and easily forgotten about. A culture permeates everyone and everything that works for a business, an ideal which everyone can aspire to...

13 Green Apps for Earth Day Green Living and Beyond

  Monday, April 22 is Earth Day.  With so much attention on "going green" many are still curious as to what green living means or and how to do it.  Living green or a sustainable lifestyle means different things to different people.  In a nutshell,...

Rethinking Waste for Earth Day

  Do you know your waste and recycling facts? The average American office worker uses about 500 disposable cups every year. Every year, Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons to circle the equator 300 times. Every...

Earth Day Inspiration - 25 Green and Sustainability Pinterest Boards to Follow

  In a perfect world, our world's energy is powered by renewable sources, business sustainability is the norm, and sustainable lifestyles abound.  While we're not quite there yet, as a sustainability consultant, I ask, "What will get us there?"...

15 Small Business Tips For Businesses Going Green this Earth Day

  Why would a small business owner consider going green?  In a nutshell, integrating sustainability concepts, or "going green" into core business functions makes companies more nimble in a fast-changing world.  It also makes a business’s brands...

Refining Our Understanding of Sustainable Innovation

  Attempting to seize new opportunities and improve competitive positions, our sustainability consulting practice finds that business leaders are looking for innovative solutions.   In fact, research and a multitude of recent literature suggest...

Sustainable Talent Management During M&As

  Our sustainability consulting finds that highly effective organizations in the current climate recognize the talent of the future does not reside exclusively or even in a large part outside the walls of the current organization.  Instead, these...

Proof Is In the Pudding: CSR Drives Public Confidence

  Although business sustainability is not new, grasping sustainability concepts and its practical applications to a specific business is new to some business leaders.  It is not uncommon within our business sustainability consulting practice to be...

Sustainable Innovation Is All About Engagement

  A commonly held belief which is gaining much more attention these days is that employees with a vested interest in the success of the company become much more aligned with the goals of the organization. Thus, the key is to link business...

Telecommuting – Finding Individual Business Balance

  While telecommuting is not a new concept, the manner in which it is implemented and the successes businesses have seen is consistently evolving.  What we have found is that there is a balance each company must find between desirable hours spent...

Business Sustainability – Twenty Years and Still Going Strong

  In a recent post, Twenty Years On, Corporate Sustainability Still Lacking, GreenBiz presents the findings from the German-based oekom research.  The study describes how companies have been making business sustainability progress over the years, but...

Discover the Power of Knowledge in Business Sustainability Application

  “Seek first to understand, then to be understood."  These are the immortal words of Stephen Covey, and the topic of our discussion today.  While it may sound like obvious advice, our sustainability consulting finds that this simple concept is...

Creating a Clear Path for Sustainable Business Ideas

  Since the introduction of the concept of the triple bottom line, supporters and critics have debated the ability to link business sustainability actions to business profitability.  Without a definitive financial incentive, companies have...

Build Your Social Engagement for Sustainability in 6 Simple Steps

  It's been questioned if social media change the world?  Can it make our world a better world?  How is it advancing the sustainability conversation?  Considering that for the first time in the history of humanitarian aid, the internet and...

Stakeholder Engagement Remains a Central Theme in Sustainable SCM

  Reviewing the recent GreenBiz post, How Sony Strengthened Its Supply Chain and Added Value, our  professional consulting practice continues its exploration of sustainable supply chain strategies and defining business traits.  Herein, the...

Taking Sustainable Business Culture Change to the Ground Level

  “Unfortunately, innovation is often confused with strategy, so it’s not surprising that it’s often approached the same way.  High level meetings with senior executives are convened, big decisions are taken, announcements are made and vast resources...