Augusto Lopez-Claros Director of Global Indicators and Analysis at the World Bank Another of the keynote speakers we will enjoy during the event offers his redefinition of excellence: “Excellence has to do with vertical improvements over time in the pursuit of a particular task, skill or plan. If I feel that I play the piano better [...]
Jyoti Munsiff former company secretary at Shell Jyoti Munsiff, who until recently held the most senior female position at Shell, will share the path she embarked on to reach the board of Shell in an unwavering yet wise coherence with her values. Here’s a redefinition of excellence that she offers for the event: “If we [...]
Helena Hastie executive officer at BASED-UK “Rejecting the low sights of mediocrity, let them scale the ascending heights of excellence in all they aspire to do. May they resolve to elevate the very atmosphere in which they move, whether it be in the school rooms or halls of higher learning, in their work, their [...]
social entrepreneurship is the protagonist of this week’s “ebbf meaningful work humour” cartoon. And if you wish to get started and create your own “dream enterprise” to address entrepreneurially a social issue (without robbing anyone), you are most welcome to join and use ebbf’s most recent tool to assist potential social entrepreneurs in their first [...]
Funny but often true story shown in this week’s “ebbf meaningful work humour” cartoon, sent by ebbf member Daniel Schaubacher. Companies, Nations are all too often forgetting the great advantages for all of adapting to world change and moving to the global as opposed to the nationalistic / individualistic view. The recent ebbf keynote by [...]
To celebrate Earth Day, ebbf offers you a free one hour conversation where you can share your ideas with the director of Sustainability at Intel (Carrie Freeman) and an international group of individuals on the topic of: “re-inventing the enterprise to co-create prosperity” As Carrie mentions “For corporations to prosper in the next generation, they [...]
For our “meaningful monday at work humour” weekly column, we highlight the importance of creating – useful – products and services: items and solutions that will serve society’s urgent needs. Think how much more meaningful it is to work in such an enterprise, both your human resources will be much more easily motivated and your [...]
Tonight (at 20:00 Central European Time) you are invited to the last of the “ebbf meaningful hangouts”, open online conversation with the author, dedicated to – how to make meaningful work actually happen – email us if you are interested to attend. After the first and last week’s second part, today ebbf member author and [...]
Have you ever wanted to create your own “dream enterprise”? The kind of company that could satisfy both of your aspirations: an enterprise that pays your bills AND has a positive impact on society; or to use ebbf’s own vision statement “contributes towards a prosperous, just and sustainable civilization”? ebbf has just launched a new [...]
For our “meaningful monday at work humour” weekly column, we connect our marketing departments and truthfulness. You can go to the following link to one ebbf point of view on this topic: the “mindful marketing 0% fat 100% meaningfulness” keynote offered at the last ebbf annual learning event by Pieter Van Osch : http://ebbf.org/blog/1st-keynote-mindful-marketing-0-fat-100-meaningfulness/ If you are [...]
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ever wanted to create your “dream enterprise”?
Have you ever wanted to create your own “dream enterprise”? The kind of company that could satisfy both of your aspirations: an enterprise that pays your bills AND has a positive impact on society; or to use ebbf’s own vision statement “contributes towards a prosperous, just and sustainable civilization”? ebbf has just launched a new [...]
Applying moral leadership even at Goldman Sachs, you are invited to ebbf ‘s next meaningful hangout
You might have read yesterday’s ebbf blog referring to this week’s New York Times editorial written by the now former executive director of Goldman Sachs, effectively condemning their unethical behaviours. Wishing to be a relevant and useful forum for you, ebbf offers you the opportunity to interact with other ebbf members around the world: you [...]
ebbf updates: new opportunities accompanying you on a path of influence
Greetings! We share with you a few highlights of ebbf tools, created to assist and accompany you along your increasing path of influence. Allowing you to seek ways in which you can connect your role in your organization with the wider purpose that inspires the members of this organization: learning, promoting and applying a new [...]
Net Impact offers meaningful job opportunities
A new logo, a new website but Net Impact remains a truly excellent platform for “a new generation of leaders who use their careers to tackle the world’s toughest problems, showing how it is possible to make a net impact that benefits not just the bottom line, but people and planet too”. An organization that ebbf is [...]
A few Friday meaningful job offers for you
A few meaningful jobs that might interest you for this Friday post: European Program Manager for CSR at Intel – see website FastCompany is looking for: – a web developer - see websit – a design intern – see website The Harvard Business Review is recruiting a senior editor: see this job offer [...]
over 20 meaningful job offers from change.org and ethical performance
1. Change.org is offering a few positions that you can find on their website What strikes us about change.org is the proof of the potential influence of the individual in today’s highly connected world. It is one of a number of platforms that demonstrated how much a single person can achieve and influence making use [...]