by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 14, 2011
The Harvard Business Review hosts an excellent Online Forum titled The CEO’s Role in Fixing the System. A recent post by Raymond V. Gilmartin caught my attention. Gilmartin is the former chairman, president, and CEO of Merck and is currently an adjunct professor...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 11, 2011
First, 7 things to remind yourself of every day: Your passion: Only do what you’re deeply passionate about. There will not only be bumps in the road, but trenches that look like they have no bottom. If you’re not doing what you love, there will be too many...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 9, 2011
Thomas Freidman recently passed along an excellent suggestion that he found on a blog: “U.S. congressmen should have to dress like NASCAR drivers and wear the logos of all the banks, investment banks, insurance companies and real estate firms that they’re taking money...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 7, 2011
Last week, my recently launched consulting firms –Jeffrey Hollender Partners and CommonWise – hosted the senior leadership team of the Mondragon Cooperative Cooperation for a discussion about the role cooperatives can play in addressing the social and economic...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 3, 2011
The implications of the US government annually investing 90% less than the Chinese have in developing and manufacturing alternative energy technology has doomed America to lose the battle for the energy future. While we bemoan the loss of a $527 million federal loan...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 17, 2011
John Fullerton, a friend and the founder of The Capital Institute, celebrated Labor Day with some thoughtful ways to create more jobs – now. Here’s the challenge we face as defined by Fullerton: “To create 7 to 10 million net new jobs in the United States over the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 12, 2011
The Dorothy Day Apartments on Riverside Drive in West Harlem are shockingly beautiful. The building is one of six in the neighborhood run by Broadway Housing Communities. Charles Blow, an excellent new addition to The New York Times Op-Ed pages, went to visit. His...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 11, 2011
With every piece of legislation, every political decision, every empty campaign promise, we have moved further and further away from a democracy benefitting all Americans and closer to an oligarchy serving very few Americans – the 1%. It’s a dangerous development that...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 10, 2011
More than a decade ago, The Ecologist cited the insurance industry as the single most significant force addressing the challenges of global climate change. Large European insurance firms were pressuring the boards of global companies to develop strategies to mitigate...