Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, is helping to fund a 200 foot tall clock designed to last millennia. He calls it “The 10,000 Year Clock” being built deep inside a Nevada mountain. “We humans have become so technologically sophisticated that in certain ways we’re dangerous to ourselves. It’s going to be […]
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Big business risks losing its social licence—Part 1 of 2
You need a licence to open a café or sell wine from a UK store. Should enough local people object you may be stopped. This is part of the “social licence”–where society affects what business can do. That a firm needs a social licence seems strange. Yet most would agree […]
A Cure for Compliance “Groundhog Day”
Guest post from Jim Nortz, Compliance & Ethics Consultant and Educator, Institute for Priority Thinking & EthicsPoll For over a decade business has heard the drumbeat of enforcement actions by regulators. The reaction of companies reminds me of the movie Groundhog Day. In this the doomed hero lives the same day over and […]