It looks as if some of the predictions and comments that were highlighted in this column earlier in the year are coming home to roost, as evidenced by a couple of recent stories from the global press.
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Tough new emission rules, which will bring together seven existing (and frankly, leaky) bits of disparate EU legislation, were agreed last week in Luxembourg. The agreement brings the EU a little closer to having some real laws, with bite, on curbing the effects of industrial pollution.
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A recent article in the Times makes for interesting reading and, in essence, concludes that womankind will be the planet’s saviour (if it isn’t already too late!). “Just as there is a wise woman behind every successful man, or so the saying goes, there is also one behind most ethical businesses”, the article begins, covering the WEBAs.
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A recent article in The Independent by a fellow contributor to Director of Finance Online, Richard Northedge, graphically illustrates how the recession is sorting the men from the boys, the cynical marketeers from the companies that have a genuine commitment to, and understanding of, Corporate Social Responsibility.
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Attending a sustainability workshop the other evening on the theme of remote working and its associated challenges (another extremely useful event run by Ashridge Business School together with InterfaceRAISE), I was struck by what the guest speaker, Roland Fristch, VP and Head of Global Services at Danfoss, proposed as the key differentiator between organisations that make this work and those who don’t; leadership and management.
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