Halcyon Identifies

 

Volunteering across boundaries is increasing, as organisations start to connect the dots across their leadership development, corporate social responsibility, and corporate strategy efforts.

 

The World's Most Ethical Companies designation recognises companies that go beyond making statements about doing business "ethically" and translate those words into action.

 

A new website invites the public to share their opinions on everything from business to politics to world events.

 

Is an erosion of wider societal values in the business world one of the primary reasons of the current economic crisis?

  

There may be just five more years in which to start a low carbon industrial revolution before runaway climate change becomes almost inevitable, claims a major new report, although some other respected scientists would strongly disagree with such an analysis.

  

Leading multinationals have joined the UN in a bid to end hunger and malnutrition among children in developing countries.

 

More and more companies are realising the strategic value of values.  Many are also engaged in a quest for authenticity.

Microdecisions - small decisions made many times by many workers when dealing with clients - can often have as important an impact on companies' prospects as major strategic decisions.

Social entrepreneurship, although of course long-established, has come of age as a stand-alone area of management and media focus in 2008.

A new generation of management experts is beginning to change the way business gets done.