Social and Environmental Responsibility

It's discussed everywhere these days - Social Responsibility/Environmental responsibility; and its many applications - corporate responsibility, sustainable future, work-life balance, environmental development, investigative analysis, our future, 50 year plan, corporate social responsibility... CHANGE We all recognise it's needed, but: How is it going to affect your bottom line if you don't do it...

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"laggards and obstructionists"

That, according to Andrew Weaver, climate expert, IPCC contributor and author of Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World, is Canadians’ international reputation is when it comes to climate change. Whether or not you care about our reputation, you should care about what our country is doing in reference to climate change. If you expect to live at least another decade, you will feel its effects economically, socially, and psychologically. Your children, if you have any, will suffer its direct impact, and the lives of your grandchildren will be nightmarish. If I could only write about one thing, it would be climate change/global warming.

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Family Business Australia Conference

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Family Business Association Conference. Glenn Cooper, Executive Chairman of Coopers Brewery was the first speaker. I know Glenn from another life pre The CLF and he is a real gentleman. Glenn also heads up the marketing for Coopers and previously he explained to me that the main purpose of their marketing is to give the appearance that Coopers is a much bigger brewery than they are. Seems to work well given the number of people that enjoy a pale ale. Our executive Chairman Ralph Kerle was also a keynote speaker, just before lunch. Ralph firstly gave an overview of the research he has done on 'Is Australian Management Creative and Innovative'. He then proceeded to launch our Creative Leadership Index and The Creativity Zone

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The AGSM Executive Programs in collaboration with The Creative Leadership Forum

The Creative Leadership Forum and The AGSM Executive Programs are collaborating together to develop a two and half day program for executives on Leadership, Creativity and Innovation.

Following on from the AGSM Executive Roundtable on Leadership, Creativity and Innovation on 20th February 2009, this program caters for the needs of executives that emerged.

Rosemary Howard and Ralph Kerle have produced a podcast below that provides a fantastic insight into the background and importance of this program in our current challenging times...

Hyper-Local Hero

Ten years ago, Rob Curley was covering city hall for the Topeka daily paper. Now he's lighting up the entire industry. How a "nerd from Kansas" discovered the web, and hit the big time. On a Saturday afternoon in August, Rob Curley is holed up in a video-production studio in Naples, Florida, with a couple of sleep-deprived colleagues. Between yawns and sodas, they're editing high-school football footage that's scheduled to air tonight on the Web (and on iPods and PlayStation Portables), as well as on local cable. These are only preseason games, but this being football country and all, Curley, the head of new media at the Naples Daily News, wants PrepZone Playbook, his team's newest creation, to rock. Pulsing music, action-packed highlights, slick animation--the works. So he keeps nitpicking. When a reporter appears on-screen, unnamed, to offer postgame analysis, Curley interrupts: "Okay, we have to say who that is right away." The rest, though, looks "fricking awesome, like something on ESPN!"

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