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It's in the Brain - leadership and social issues
It is now fairly well accepted that the brain has three quite clear areas from which to control our behaviour – the area closest to the brain stem (sometimes called ‘the reptilian brain”), the limbic area (sometimes called “the mammalian brain”), and the cortical area (sometimes called “the human brain”. There is hard data that shows where teachers engage with students, the students become more responsive to learning and they don’t want to “let the teacher down”. In turn this has an impact by reducing antisocial behaviour in the community around the school. There is also hard data that shows where employees are engaged with their work and with their co-workers, there is significant reduction in lateness, absenteeism, sickness, and abuse of trust.
Lesson #3: Give Back
“I don’t want to be a Russell Simmons, greedy-ass entrepreneur,” he exclaims. “I would like to be a Russell Simmons, philanthropist/activist.”
Lesson #5: Make Integrity an Integral Part of Your Company
“It is easy to be big in big things, in big moments, when everyone is watching,” noted Watson Jr. “Real character emerges in the way we meet our routine, everyday obligations. Really big people are, above everything, courteous, considerate, and generous, not just to some people, in some circumstances, but to everyone all the time. One of the reasons we are known as a great company is that we are known as a company made up of people like that.”
Lesson #5: Your Conscience is Your Chicest Business Accessory
“We children didn’t have many chances to daydream,” recalls Armani. “It was wartime. There were very real, everyday problems. I didn’t have time to think about my dreams for the future. We were concerned with certain, very basic things: eating, getting cheap schoolbooks, and being able to go to the cinema on Sundays.”

Interview of Mohammad Yunus of Grameen Bank
I found this interview of Mohammad Yunus of Grameen Bank. His idea to provide “micro loans” to poor people to jumpstart their entrepreneurship truly is changing the world. In fact, Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
What Makes a Press Release Newsworthy? It's all in the news angle.
Here are 10 common news angles that public relations professionals use to write a press release that newspapers actually want to pick up.
10 Steps to Launching a Green Business
Green could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century. We'll get a clean environment because entrepreneurs will make it happen. John Doerr 1951 -Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist In fact today, most things (authentically) “going green” are looking very promising. For example, one of the mainstream issues on everyone’s mind is energy. And of the many things being developed in the energy sector, one segment to really watch in the very short term is nanotechnology. Perhaps it’s time for you to consider ramping up your green factor? 10 Steps to Determining Your Green Product / Service
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment
As corporations have got bigger and bigger, they have damaged the environment in different ways. The exploitation of the world’s resources through overmining, overfarming and overfishing is putting our future in doubt. As these shortages influence the market, corporations will have no option but to seek other ways of doing business. As marginal lands become deserts, fossil fuels run dry and fish stocks deplete, the necessity of a sustainable environment will become obvious. What we want is for companies to realise this obligation now, before it is too late.
10 Affordable PR and Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses
Great low-investment techniques to market your small business online and offline Small and emerging businesses are constantly striving to meet their bottom lines and increase profits while struggling with a stringent marketing budget. This article contains ten proven techniques to market your business with very little investment. The only thing that can hold you back in implementing these for your business is your imagination.

2.0 Introduction: Enterprise solutions to poverty
This paper has two objectives. The first is to introduce the Shell Foundation and its way of working. The second is to offer up insights drawn from our experience as a contribution to the wider debate on how the private sector and the International Development Community (IDC) can most effectively catalyse equitable, self-sustaining development in poor countries (see annex 1).

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How Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can have the opposite effect to what is intended
The global social and environmental issues we face appear more serious and more intractable than ever. At the same time, more and more businesses are falling over themselves in attempts to persuade us that they are green and responsible. How can this be?
Social Status And Resistance To Change
Why do people so often resist change? Issues of social status may be at the root of much resistance.
Africa's Music Industry Issues, Part II
This is Part II of our discussion on Africa’s Music Industry Issues. In Part I, Wale Ewedemi, a music industry insider and founder of the recently formed Nigeria Music Industry Association, discussed with us the current state of Africa’s music industry and intellectual property rights. Here, we continue with our insider as we explore issues around technology, distribution, advocacy, infrastructure, music authenticity and social media.

Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship There is a movement across the globe today that says solutions to society's most pressing social issues cannot be left up to the government to determine. Social entrepreneurs are business owners that decide to take on the work of engaging with social problems implementing systems that offer broad-scale change.
A LEGAL LANDMINE: PRIVACY ISSUES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
A brief overview of new legal policies surrounding social media. Between text messaging and cell phones, social media is playing host to all new legal issues for employers. This article will help break down some of the more common issues occurring and let employers know what they can and can't pursue within the legal limits.
Social Media-Great Place to Make Money as Well As Staying in Touch!
In today’s world, social media’s impact on our daily lifestyles is extremely dramatic. More often than not, celebrations, or the achievement of any of life’s milestones is posted in the internet so that friends, colleagues and others you need to connect with, may share your experience. Personal issues aside, it is also possible to gain significant income from social media by utilizing the following strategies....

The Latest HR Issues
Workers Comp - Dress Codes - Social Media - Misunderstandings... oh, the pleasures of HR. Here are Betsey's suggestions on handling these issues.
Are Your Communication Strategies Really Engaging Employees?
Employee engagement is a shared understanding of the issues that affect the business, and that understanding leads to changes in employees' attitudes and behaviors... help employees truly understand the issues and make a meaningful connection between their jobs and those issues...
What's Great About Google+
Some online experts claim that Google+ will solve all of your social network issues and lead you to drop your Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and blogging site in favor of this new mega-social network. Although it is highly unlikely that users will stop using Facebook and Twitter cold turkey, look for Google+ to pick up steam in the coming months.

What IS Social Networking and why is it so beneficial for Marketers?
We now live in an age when everybody talks about Social Media and Social Networks and Social Marketing, but what IS social networking? And what makes it so attractive to home business enthusiasts and Internet Marketers? Here is the simple answer...
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