Celebrate the 4th of July with An Inconvenient Truth

I just saw Al Gore’s movie. I know why he named it an inconvenient truth. Because much of what we can and must do is in fact inconvenient. The movie left me deeply saddened and depressed since so much of what I can and must do I have left undone. I have been...

How Much is Enough?

There was no shortage of complaining about the $147 million that Lee R. Raymond, retiring CEO of Exxon Mobil departed the company with. Exxon shareholders didn’t seem to mind. Why would they when large company CEO’s make on average 300 times what the average worker...

The Illusion of Happiness

We, (me included) chase with great and even desperate passion – more and more and more – stuff. A bigger pay check, a nicer house, a cooler car, new clothes……. Now – we sort of know better, we know that we can’t have both a sane and sustainable world with all that...

Making A Difference: Managing Corporate Responsibility

About a year and a half ago, I started writing a book about the true nature of business responsibility. It was going to be a book written in response to the climate of scandal caused by the whole sordid Enron/WorldCom/ImClone mess. I was sure this atmosphere was going...