by Gil Friend | Jun 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
A tweet from the perspicacious Jerry Michalski about “that troubling word, consumer” got me digging through my blog archives. I was looking for a piece (which I didn’t find), that noted at least two problems with that troubling word consumption is a...
by Gil Friend | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I wrote about the challenge of preparing your company for a future you can’t possibly predict, and navigating it successfully. I’ll explore that challenge further this week, and over the coming weeks. For starters, be sure you understand...
by Gil Friend | Jun 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I wrote about the challenge of preparing your company for a future you can’t possibly predict, and navigating it successfully. I’ll return to that theme next week. But first… I spent last week at the Sustainable Brands conference....
by Gil Friend | May 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
As the ever insightful Seth Godin wrote recently: “The one who can see—see what’s coming and see what matters—is the one you want piloting your boat.” Foresight. At the risk of sounding immodest, I’m told it’s one of the core skills I...
by Gil Friend | May 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
In their otherwise excellent HBR post, “Sustainability In Financial Services Is Not About Being Green,” Robert Eccles and George Serafeim may have missed the elephant in the room. They rightly say that The next time we hear about a bank or insurance...
by Gil Friend | May 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Does Wall Street really care about sustainability? This was one of the questions in the air at the Ceres conference last week, where managers of trillions of dollars of assets gathered to assess and advance the state of ESG/SRI/sustainable/impact investment....
