Corporate Social Sesponsibility is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. CSR policy functions as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms. The goal of CSR is to embrace responsibility for the company’s actions and [Continue Reading]
Keeping the Older Employee Healthy
The Importance Of A Healthy, Older Workforce By Bonnie Guith Today, individuals are remaining in the workforce for a longer period of time than our parents’ generation. Between 1977 and 2007, employment of workers 65 years and over increased 101% — a large jump compared to a much smaller increase of 59% for total employees [Continue Reading]
Fractional Math, Thermodynamics and Family Business
The second law of thermodynamics is an expression of the tendency that over time, differences in temperature, pressure, and chemical potential equilibrated in an isolated physical system so as to result in the natural entropic dissolution of the system itself. Stated more simply, the energy of a system wanes over time if there is [Continue Reading]
Advisory Boards And Advice
Lessons From The Algonquin Round Table This week another New York landmark closed, the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel. Among this generation of singers who performed at the Oak Room over its three-decade history were Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall and Michael Feinstein. The Algonquin was already famous for its “The Algonquin [Continue Reading]
Great Companies, Family Businesses, Don’t Start With A Plan! Really?
Planning, Passion and Purpose in Great Companies Many Colleges and Universities have a center for small business, some have programs for family businesses and a few even offer degrees in Family Business Management. Many if not all offer classes on business plans, strategic plans, tactical plans, short term plan, 5 year plan and some [Continue Reading]
Water, Wind And The Cloud
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. [Continue Reading]