Thursday 29 October 2009

And the good news is

Good.is magazine is inspiring reading. Their good 100 is brilliant. I’ll bet you want to go and do something good as a result of reading about their best 100. And I hope you do.

My favourites are
Hilliary Clinton

Ideo and their social impact program

Bundanoon Australia

Bulldozing cities

Cash for grass

Women are the key to development

TED X

Cowpooling

Check out the full 100 here.

Be remarkable
Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Tuesday 27 October 2009

Raise your profile through thought leadership

At just about every conference and meeting I have presented at this year the subject of thought leadership has been on the agenda. And rightly so.

I thought you would enjoy this article by my friend Shelley Dunstone as inspiration to improve your thought leadership.

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Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Saturday 24 October 2009

change management in 60 seconds

Some great insights into why change management often doesn't work and how it can from Management Consultancy International



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Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Sunday 18 October 2009

The Real Power of Collaboration

The Rhythm of Business 13th October blog The Real Power of Collaboration is excellent. I highly recommend dowloading the PDF by Jeffrey Shuman and Janice Twombly. Go to their blog here.

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Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Thursday 15 October 2009

Three types of corporate responsibility managers by Toby Webb

I encourage you to read an excellent article here by Toby Webb the Founder of business intelligence company Ethical Corporation. I like his take on change-makers or as I call these wonderful folk, differencemakers.

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Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Sunday 11 October 2009

Please support President Obama

US President Barack Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize is an award for the future yet to be created.

Obama himself says he's "surprised, humbled" and doesn't yet deserve it -- but he's accepted the Prize as a call to action, "to confront the common challenges of the 21st century".

Please send President Obama an encouragement message through the Avaaz organisation here.

“Avaaz” means “Voice” in many Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European languages.

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Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Saturday 10 October 2009

Leading the responsibility revolution

We can all lead the responsibility revolution.

This time magazine article by Richard Stengel gives some good pointers as to how. Although the article is about American consumers read it as though it is about all of us, because it is. You can read the article here.

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Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Monday 5 October 2009

Where have all the people of character gone?

Heavy storm clouds stay hanging over business, religion, politics, sport and the media. Almost daily many so called icons are continuing to have their character questioned. These clouds always produce rain and wash away the stars like twigs in a river.

Like never before the world needs ordinary people of character to stand up and be counted because many of the people leading us don’t understand leadership, have sacrificed their characters in their quest for power, and in some cases their behaviour threatens our very lives.

Recently the father of a good friend passed on. He was a man of character and an inspiration to my friend. His passing caused me to reflect on my own father who passed 10 years ago.

Life my friends Father, my Dad never had his name up in lights too often but left a legacy to be proud of in his world nonetheless. I miss him. Dad was a man of character. We never always saw eye to eye. It was the words of the Mike and the Mechanics song ‘In the Living Years’ that urged me to settle my differences with Dad not long before he died.

“It’s too late when you die” the song says “to admit you don’t see eye to eye” Towards the end Dad came to hear me speak and said before I spoke “I probably won’t agree with everything the speaker says this morning but I am proud he is my son”

People of character lay it on the line like that.

People of character are unafraid to speak their minds.

People of character always tell the truth as they see it

People of character are trustworthy

People of character have integrity

People of character enjoy being popular but don’t seek popularity

People of character seek win / win but do not compromise their principles

People of character do what they believe is best for the common good regardless of the resistance they encounter

People of character praise in public and criticize in private

People of character put others first

People of character are givers not takers

People of character focus on building people’s self esteem and never engage in put downs or the blame and shame game

People of character are those we really look up to and admire

People of character are those we follow when it matters most.

Be a person of character. You are needed like never before.


Be remarkable
Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Thursday 1 October 2009

"Doing well by doing good"

"Doing well by doing good" and "reaching out and giving back" are key strategies for growth of some of the world's largest organisations. Why not you? Find out more by reading an excellent article in Harvard Business Review by Sylvia Ann Hewlett here. The article is headed "Boost Performance By Tapping Employees' Altruism"

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Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business