Today I’m doing something I rarely do. I’m setting aside our usual Sunday conversation to tell you about something I’ve built. For years, I’ve talked about and shared with you ideas about things done in a better way. Recently, I changed the podcast’s name from The 5Cs to The 5Cs: Business. Climate. Leadership. Done Differently. […]
A gent called me a few months ago. He’d been selling online since the early eighties, one of the first people to do it, long before anyone called it internet selling. He’d since tried Amazon. Tried Facebook. Tried LinkedIn. Failed on all three. He wanted to know what he’d missed. It took me those same […]
A conversation about climate risk and business, business leadership and stewardship. This is The Other Eye. The Elephant Isn’t the Problem. The Room Is with Ryan James Kemp.
On September 1, the bank called to tell us $2,500 had left our account. We got the money back. It took most of the month, and more than six weeks later, I’m still cleaning up. But what has stayed with me isn’t the money. It’s who carries the cost when technology fails. Right now, that’s […]
A conversation about climate risk and business, business leadership and stewardship. This is The Other Eye. Hearts Only Have One Colour with Ryan James Kemp.
Ryan’s mom is a worrier.One day he asked her why she worried so much.“My mom was a worrier,” she said.And her mom?“Her too.”Now Ryan’s sister is a worrier. Think about that for a moment. His great-grandmother’s worry is living in his sister today. Nobody chose it. Nobody sat down and decided to pass it on. […]
I got myself (three pairs of) new glasses last month. Somewhere in the middle of the eye test and the final fitting pick-up, I realized something else had changed along with my eyesight. I’ve become almost impossibly picky about what I’ll actually read. A few years ago, my sister-in-law gave me a stack of romance […]
A conversation about climate risk and business, business leadership and stewardship. This is When the Land Talks Back: The Next Right Step. With Nicola Robins.
The one very specific feature I want to talk about today is the one that never leaves you alone. Look, I spent part of this summer with the Stoics. Marcus Aurelius mostly, some Seneca, and every version of the Odyssey plot that isn’t actually the Odyssey, because I cannot stand Ulysses, and I’m not going […]
A conversation about climate risk and business, business leadership and stewardship.
This is When the Land Talks Back: The River, Not the Bridge. With Nicola Robins.