International Society for Business and Economic Ethics (ISBEE) celebrated its 6th world conference in Shanghai July 13 – 16. And I had the honor and pleasure to participate in the proceedings. Although it touched on a variety of topics, at the center lay the ethical and social dimensions of innovation. In this post I have…

While NASA predicts that 2016 will be the hottest year ever, only 22 of the 197 parties to the Paris agreement have ratified it and since the largest nations have not yet done so, these countries add up to only 1% of global emissions.

“Words are a lawyer’s tools of trade”, observed one wise old owl. But we must be careful because many court cases, business presentations, sermons or lectures have been ruined by an excessive use of words. Wind bags in the court room, board rooms, pulpits, or class rooms are such a turn off. Brevity is the…

In addition to government and civil society, business needs to increase its ability to respond to the threat of terrorist attacks against its employees, customers and suppliers and increase its resilience