If you’re like many small business owners today, your workplace includes three generations of employees: boomers, Gen X and Gen Y/Millennials. ZDNet recently took a look at the challenges of managing multigenerational workforces and how some companies handle this issue. Although the examples used were large companies, there’s a lot that small businesses can learn. [...]
Nike is taking a leadership position and opening its Environmental Design Tool to everyone on the web. The tool, which Nike has used internally for years, has been released in the hopes that it will spur collaboration between apparel designers and reduce consumption of natural resources like water and oil. The online tool allows textile [...]
I wrote my book, Build a Green Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur, specifically to help people start green businesses. I wanted readers to explore the world of green business, and what running one of these wonderfully synergistic entities that combine social activism, human rights, and environmental protection, with free market, self-sustaining, good old [...]
Johannesburg – Charismatic entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, has given South African small business owners a thumbs-up. Speaking to Fin24 on Wednesday, Branson said he was encouraged by the initiative taken by entrepreneurs housed in the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship. “It is very encouraging to see businesses emerging and being [...]
The 2011 State of Green Business Forum, conducted by GreenBizGroup, started today in San Francisco, and follows with forums in Chicago and Washington D.C. in the next two weeks. The Forum is one of the standard bearers in the world of sustainable business conferences. It brings together thought leaders, innovators, and executives across all industries [...]
When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” No pressure there. Let’s begin with the startling part. Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to [...]
The corporate world has protected and sheltered many for years, however, there are no certainties any longer. Multi-billion dollar industries, like the telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and the automobile industries, which once employed hundreds of thousands are now truly diminished in size, and find themselves back pedaling (if they exist at all anymore) for the bad decision [...]
Consumer demand for green products and services in China, India and Singapore is outstripping supply. That’s according to a recent regional study by product certification and testing company Tuv Sud. The study found that businesses are missing out on opportunities and need to change their attitudes to tap a growing market. When it comes to [...]
