It’s no secret that fast fashion is having a devastating impact on the planet and we mustn’t forget its negative social impact, either. The fashion industry comes with an appalling human cost, with many textile workers – often women and children in developing countries – exposed to terrible working conditions for little or no pay.
Recently, within my network on LinkedIn, the hashtag #momtoo has been trending. The campaign’s purpose is to show that women can visibly be mothers, but also reach the peak of their profession.
As a working mum, I decided to create my own post and it quickly gained a lot of traction. Am I surprised? Yes, but I shouldn’t be, clearly, this message resonates with a lot of women.
The UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow has been attended by 120 of the world’s leaders, as well as businesses, not for profit organisations and leading environmental experts, all with the goal of kick-starting a decade of accelerated climate action.
Because acceleration is what we need. Governments, businesses, and individuals need to act now to secure a global net-zero target by 2050 and to keep the net temperature increase to 1.5 degrees or below.
To do our bit, we wanted to summarise some of the key findings from COP26 to make this two-week event accessible to individuals and businesses that want to do more.
Working from home definitely doesn’t suit us all. Prior to the pandemic, a European study showed that 41% of remote workers reported a higher level of stress, compared to only 25% of full-time office workers. However, Mental Health America in 2018 found that 71% of people would like to work from home to reduce commute related stress. It’s safe to say, there’s no one size fits all, and here at BRITE, we’ve always been a team that’s geographically dispersed.
We cannot always expect other people to motivate us, or to lead us through difficult times. It’s certainly a plus if that happens, but we need to spend time finding ways to shine, particularly when the circumstances around us change for the worse. At some point we need to be our own personal trainers, our own life coaches.
With technology changing the way we do business and people around the world challenging and disrupting traditional approaches to delivering in the workplace, personal development (i.e. learning) is becoming more important. Let’s face it: if you’re not learning you’re standing still, which puts you in a vulnerable position.
Having a great strategy and operating model is not going to help the organisation if all the departments involved do not follow and stick to it. The more complex an organisation and the more diverse its products and markets, the more important aligning across functions to achieve one common goal (the budget) becomes. The goal of this business review is to share some recent articles as well as my thoughts on this topic.
With the UNs focus on achieving their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and activists like Greta Thunberg sailing emission-free across the ocean to speak to world leaders about sustainability, it is now impossible to deny the problem that is plastic. In this article, I analyse how businesses are reorganising to reduce their plastic consumption.
As we have previously discussed, corporations have been asked (or obliged) to add non-financial KPIs to their performance goals, taking into account their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. As a result, we have seen a growing number of companies adopt and implement a broad range of sustainability practices, provoking debate about the nature of sustainability and its long-term implications for organisations.
Following up on Brite’s previous monthly business update entitled Strategy, sustainability and the role of the investment community, this month I will touch on the concept of Shared Value by recapping the latest news on this topic with particular focus on businesses that have successfully changed their strategies to increase their competitiveness while positively impacting the environment and society.
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