Great question, Aryae. Initiating and sustaining value-adding on-line conversations is a wonderfully tough challenge.
Your graphic is a beautiful depiction of what I might call a Community of Practice, where practitioners who share a common field...
Perhaps those participants who take action in their organizations relevant to the discussion and learnings would share them on this site and ask colleagues for their thoughts in overcoming initial resistance or for opportunities to implementing ev...
Here's how I imagine it happening:
When we're at the HR Summit, everyone says, "Yeah, great idea!"
We all agree. Keeping the community going for a while after the Summit can provide a real incubator for high impact actions that we can all take t...
The HR Summit Quadrus Conference Center
Menlo Park, California
June 2, 2009, 8 AM to 4 PMInvesting in the Future: Hold, Fold or Double Down?
Business Options Moving Forward and the HR Contribution
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Adam Werbach became the Sierra Club’s youngest president in 1996, at 23. Yet by 2004, he argued in a widely discussed speech that environmentalism had hit a wall because it focused on green issues rather than a larger goal: sustainability. His willingness to help Wal-Mart’s efforts to achieve it made him still more controversial among environmentalists. Werbach is now CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S, a consultancy arm of the global advertising firm dedicated to sustainability solutions. This article is adapted from his new book, Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto. In an accompanying video interview, he explains the ideas that inspired it.
See the McKinsey article at When Sustainability Means More than "Green".
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