LIM News                                      Stop and Reflect
Issue: # 151March/2013
In This Issue
When B Corporations get an A
Creating a Safety Culture
What happened?
The 1 minute gift
The BIG BANG of Being

The SUSTAINABILITY pick of the month:

Champions can light up the darkness 


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Dear Reader, 

Depending on how you tolerate uncertainty, when you have a decision to make, you spend time in figuring out a Plan Be in case your original best option won't work. Now that we are all challenged by our environmental, social, financial and values crises, it may be time to ponder a Plan B --in this case, the new B Corporations. 
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Enjoy the reading! (And check out the Quote of the Month at the bottom - the Quotes are back!, to invite you to Stop and Reflect...)

 

When B Corporations get an A

 

      

In 2006, the Case Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio, organized a conference titled "Business as an Agent for World Benefit". The audience, mostly academics, listened to several guest speakers from the corporate world, who showcased examples of how their corporations were incorporating the greater good into their initiatives, products, or strategies. Pioneers like late Interface founder Ray Anderson,  Alcoa Aerospace, and Unilever executives, shared inspiring stories. But a question kept circulating among the audience: If we want more corporations acting like these, what are we - the business schools- doing to promote it? [...]
One new milestone in this journey is the creation of the B Corporation.

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Health and Safety

How do you create an organizational culture of health and safety? At the Conference held on February 12, 2013 in Bucharest, Romania, LIM's Eastern Europe Director, Dan Berinde, explained the benefits and opportunities of shaping a corporate culture that is healthy and safe for all employees, creating engagement plus risk management.  
 

Business,   Technology, Wisdom and Society...   Last month we announced the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. If you are curious about what happened, read highlights in this article of FastCompany. 

 

Give yourself a little gift
  

This month, a You Tube to call out your playful soul and think what if...  One of those videos that are made to be shared, so share it with others.  It's the 1 minute gift of this month, and think in what ways you' may be already doing something like this!?

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 Hypnotist

 

New Release
BIG BANG BEING: Developing the Sustainability Mindset

What is the Sustainability Mindset, and how can we lead from there? What values and beliefs keep us anchored in unsustainable behaviors? What opportunities are we missing to see?  Legacy Coach and LIM Partner, Isabel Rimanoczy explores these questions in an unusual format, that combines "just in time" coaching interventions , concepts, data, illustrations and poems. Click here to read some excerpts.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

It is often easier to fight for a principle, than to live up to it.

Adlai Stevenson

 

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