I believe that education needs to be seen in the context of the skills that society needs at any given point in time and foresees that it might need in its future. Included with these skills are attitudes and ways of thinking. …

Patagonia appears to be the lodestar for wellbeing in business. You cannot improve on having as your purpose: “we’re in business to save our home planet.” Unless of course you move into the details of saving the people, creatures, flora and fauna of the planet. I don’t see many companies…

In two previous posts, I explored how the leap might be made from traditional purpose in a business with its focus on growth and increased profits to a focus on wellbeing as the purpose of a business. In doing so, I recognized that this is a significant attitudinal and operational…

Wellbeing as Purpose We likely can all agree that wellbeing is a great idea — wellbeing in our personal life, with our family, community, at work and in our country of residence. This is even though many of us act in ways not designed to actually achieve this wellbeing. When…

How can a radical orientation toward Purpose and the Circular Economy support the pursuit of transition to greater sustainability? This topic became relevant for me after having read a set of publications by two authors associated with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership at Cambridge University (CISL). The two publications…

How does the integration of business and sustainability play out in business schools and in business education? How can we advance our collective intentions in this regard? Expanding and deepening our ideas about this can be helpful. The Epistemological Basis When one speaks of integrating sustainability with business in education…

The challenge of how to integrate sustainability concepts and practices into business education continues to occupy my thoughts. Recently, I attended two helpful webinars that dealt with this issue. One was offered by Harvard Business Publishing. The other was offered by Ivey Business School. Both had interesting speakers and panelists. …

What if there is only one side of me? What if I only take in knowledge cognitively? Or what if I am an artist and only take in what registers though my senses which then likely goes into and registers in my gut? …

Author and professor Zadie Smith writes poignantly about life during the COVID-19 crisis in her new book of essays, “Intimations.” In one essay “A Hovering Young Man,” she encounters a young person working at her university. Cy-the-IT-Guy accosts me (usually from behind) as I walk through the square, with his…