By Jim Ludema Doug Rauch, former president of the popular grocery store chain Trader Joe’s, sparked headlines last fall when he announced his …
How Tracking Helped a Vegas Legend Lead the Way in Sustainability
MGM Resorts International serves 45,000 meals every day to their employees alone. And while their legendary properties on the Vegas strip and elsewhere are known for their grandeur and excess, …
Leadership, MLK, and Concern for the Things that Matter
Popular culture can be misleading when it comes to the topic of leadership: unintentionally, we can begin to equate leadership with power, with your social media following, with your …
From My Office to Yours: Give a Gift that Speaks Your Values
The holiday season is upon us, and in the office we are thinking of our employees and valued customers. Remember the debates about the right greeting? Should it be Merry …
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Last week I had the privilege of attending two outstanding conferences, first the COMMIT Forum, a conference hosted by the Corporate Responsibility Association; followed by the Inc. 500/5000 conference, hosted …
Winning Hearts & Minds: The Battle for Diversity & Inclusion Needs Authentic Leadership (Here’s Where to Start)
As a diversity and inclusion executive, I’ve watched many initiatives waver, stall, or at worse, completely fail. What brings about these downfalls isn’t strategy – the ideas are usually sound. …
Does Spirituality Belong in Business (Podcast)
Dr. Louis W. (Jody) Fry is the founder of the International Institute for Spiritual Leadership and a professor at Texas A&M Central Texas. Fry’s most recent book is titled Maximizing …
How One CEO Helps Humanity Kick the Plastic Bag Habit
Keller, as Bag Monster. The costume is created from 500 plastic bags, the approximate number used per American each year. Andy Keller was an unemployed business school graduate when he …
If Sustainability Costs You More, You’re Doing it Wrong. The Do’s and Don’ts of Sustainable Value Chain Management
There is a lot of anecdotal information on what makes a value chain sustainable, but very little data. To change that, we partnered with ASQ, the Institute for Supply Management, …