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Trust: Why Business Lost It, And How To Win It Back

BY Chris Jarvis | 04-21-2009 | 11:55 AM | WORK/LIFE

What happened? Wall Street, in collusion with institutions around the world, have not only lost our wealth and our jobs, they have stolen our trust. Now we are “left to rely increasingly on governments for the creation of our wealth, something that they have always been conspicuously bad at doing.....Trust is fragile. Like a piece of china, once cracked it is never quite the same. And people's trust in business, and those who lead it, is today cracking." - Charles HandyREAD MORE›

Corporate Social Responsibility - Competitive Advantage? Maybe.

BY Chris Jarvis | 03-24-2009 | 10:22 PM | ETHONOMICS

Corporate Social Responsibility will never offer companies a competitive advantage - unless it is both competitive and advantageous. If you are a risk taker, and step out from the herd, CSR may offer you the edge. If you can tie it to key business strategies, it will also make you more successful. Mediocre action coupled with reporting ‘company niceties’ won’t do it.READ MORE›