by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 11, 2009
I am at the 2nd Summit on the Future of the Corporation in Boston where I have been asked to speak about “Building sustainability from within: harnessing capital to drive long-term horizons.” Here’s what’s on my mind… Seventh Generation has...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 11, 2009
On June 4th I gave a keynote address to the Vermont-New Hampshire Marketing Group. As is often the case, I never made it through my whole talk. In fact I only covered six of my 26 pages of notes. (Not that I should have ever had so many pages for an hour and fifteen...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 22, 2009
The MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT, SPRING 2009 Review asked more than 75 global leaders and sustainability thinkers the question, “What will organizations need to be good at in order to thrive in the emerging sustainability economy?” This is the beginning of a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 19, 2009
This is a long but critically important post that’s based on a brilliant paper from the Sustainable Development Commission. It’s written by Herman Daly, an ecological economist who pioneered sustainable development guidelines for the World Bank. The paper...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 22, 2008
James Gustave Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Yale University dean, and a former White House advisor, has written a great book that everyone concerned with the fate of the world must read. Speth takes all of us to task — business,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 10, 2008
On Monday, February 4th we arrived in Monteverde, Costa Rica for a trek through the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve and the Children’s Eternal Rain Forest. The trip had been organized by Tom Newmark, President of vitamin and supplement maker New Chapter, and the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 5, 2006
“One of the most important roles we can play individually or collectively is to create an opening, or to ‘listen’ to the implicate order unfolding, and then to create dreams, visions, and stories that we sense at our center want to happen…” Synchronicity, The...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 6, 2006
“presencing constitutes a third type of seeing, beyond seeing external reality and beyond seeing from within the living whole. It is seeing from within the source from which the future whole is emerging, peering back at the present from the future. In these moments,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 5, 2006
Over the past month I’ve been reading Presence by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers. Those of you who have come to know me – probably realize by now that I’m a pretty obsessive reader. Yet unlike most of what I read, Presence was...
