B Lab is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. Founder Bart Houlahan talks to Dawna Jones about their mission.
What happens when business schools are less progressive than the companies hiring their graduates? The Global Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) aims to close that gap.
Redesigning the future of work is not a casual endeavor. So why are companies so interested in exploring better ways of organizing work - and what direction are they moving in?
Dawna Jones talks to Roberta Baskin, who heads up The Flourish Prizes at Case Western University, an initiative designed to inspire the current and next generation of business leaders to build a better world.
Dawna talks to Wendy Chapple, deputy director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School, about a different approach to executive education and why the school has launched an MSc in sustainability.
Andrew Thornton, owner of a community supermarket in London, talk to Dawna Jones about putting the heart back into business and how to be a different kind of business leader.
Dawna Jones talk to Will Lauder, founder of Kapuluan Coconut, a social enterprise that works in the Philippines is to improve the well-being of impoverished rural communities through an artisanal product.
Resource scarcity is no longer an abstract ‘green’ concept. As Dawna Jones finds out from Dr Nadya Zhexembayeva,, for many businesses, scarcity is an unwelcome reality that needs to become a primary strategic consideration.
Dawna Jones talks to systems change specialist, Al Blixt, about the forces that work against innovation in higher education and how business schools can better prepare students for an increasingly unpredictable world.
Hear about leadership based on credibility and trust rather than 'yell and tell'.
Best-selling author Steven Kotler discusses the power of ‘flow’.
Exploring choice, economics, systems and evolution with economist Professor Michael Mainelli.
We’ve all heard of emotional intelligence, but what about conversational intelligence? How can leaders use conversation to activate higher-level intelligences such as trust, integrity, empathy and good judgment?
Forget organizational planning, budgeting and performance appraisals; these are all tools of the past. Companies that really want to navigate their way through today's complexity need to be able to think, not just steer.
Why do companies encourage employees to be innovative, and then work hard to block the insights they have? Dawna Jones talks to Gary Klein to find out as they explore the value of insight.
Traditional ways of organizing how work gets done isn't working to engage employees. So how can organizations re-inject life into their workplaces so that individuals can approach their work with enthusiasm and vigor? Listen on to find out.
What can rock bands like Metallica, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd teach business teams about distributed collaboration, risk management and change? Listen to Dawna Jones' interview with Ruth Blatt to find out.
Mindfulness is most often associated with reducing stress, but as we find out in this interview with Dr Dominique Steiler from Grenoble School of Management, it extends into how leaders make ethical decisions and how companies can promote sustainable value creation.
Dawna Jones finds out from Lean Sensei, Daniel Stoelb, how the same lean and agile principles that have changed the way software is developed are now helping companies with the people side of change.
If one thing is certain in life, it is uncertainty. So we could all do with some help managing risk and options in our lives and understanding how those risk and options keep messing up our projects.
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