In the week ahead we take a look at ‘The Future of Work’, from the new face of the American Dream to an increasingly automated workforce (the updside and the downside). We ask if corporations are the superheroes of the 21st century and how can we re-value the role of women in the workplace. Lastly, there will be a fast food industry in the future, just not as you know it.…
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Welcome To Cultural Acupuncture!
September 18, 2014 No Comment 174 ViewsWe’re thrilled to share this peek into the future … together. For years we’ve been eagerly seeking out the people, ideas and communities that are changing our world — the groundbreakers piercing through what we believe we know, radiating entirely new energies and contributing to what we interpret as an enormous shift in how we work, play, live, eat, and create together. The cultural acupuncturists, if you will. We continuously weave all this insight together to help…
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PINPOINTING LAST WEEK: How Do We Measure Mission vs Margin?
September 13, 2014 No Comment 16 ViewsThis week we’re highlighting the growing awareness that mission is more important than margin; that ‘for benefit’ means ‘for profit; and that marketing used to promise value, now marketing is value. While there are many ways to measure margin, we take a look at how some companies are creating new metrics that help measure mission, from a new social finance startup, to the importance of ‘storydoing, not just storytelling’.…
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B-Corps Are More Profitable and Faster Growing Than Their Counterparts.
September 11, 2014 No Comment 58 ViewsFor benefit corporations (B-corps) are emerging as the new business model, as companies realize that ‘for benefit’ means ‘for profit’, not the other way around. While it’s nothing new now to find corporations weaving conscious capitalism into their core structures, the strength of purpose with which they’re evolving is driving a new legislative framework that’s sweeping across states such as Washington, California, Hawaii…
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