Blog category: Director’s Corner

“In a world of constrained natural capital, social capital, and human capital, optimizing only return on financial capital imprisons business in the shadow of a distant past.” Arie de Gues, Former executive at Royal Dutch Shell  “We’ve reached a tipping point. Our planet and our society are at risk.  Business…

“We need to work together to optimize the system as a whole, not to seek to optimize separate pieces... Optimizing separate pieces destroys the effectiveness of the whole. For the organization to work well as a whole, the components must work together.”   Brian Joiner “We don't accomplish anything in this…

“Self-care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on this earth to offer to others.  Any time we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only…

“You know that what you eat you are.” ~The Beatles “The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.” ~Joel Salatin “There is real power in our forks, I've discovered. There is hope here. We see it once we…

“A determined effort by colleges and universities to promote civic and social responsibility among their students could do much to improve the quality of civic life in America.” Michael McPherson “We stand at the beginning of a world in which free citizens, across boundaries and borders, learn to act together…

“We must encourage those still struggling to keep moving forward.  My fellow students and I talk about creating a new kind of Africa, a place of leaders instead of victims, a home of innovation rather than charity.  I hope this story finds its way to our brothers and sisters out…

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.  It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac   “The components of the natural world are myriad but they constitute a single living system.  There is no escape…

“Policy itself follows from what is measured, and if all that is measured is money, all policy will be about is getting more money.”  ~Martin Seligman “At the end of the day, the role of business is to generate prosperity and a better quality of life for everyone… we should…

“There is a world of difference between wellbeing and being well off.” Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness “For this generation, ours, …the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.” Jimmy Carter As a prism reveals the constituent,…

  “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” -- John Muir “Ultimately, as quantum physics showed so dramatically, there are  not parts at all. What we call ‘a part’ is merely a pattern in an inseparable web of…