If your project partners aren't willing to let go of control your project may be doomed. So, how can you influence your partners to change their ways? An executive recently explained to me how the 'control' issue is impeding an important multi-sector project, making...
Why Your Collaboration Skills Are Worth A Pay Rise
Collaborating skills are a precious commodity and CEOs are desperate to acquire and develop people with them. If you have these skills you should be lining up for a pay rise, and here’s why. Why the focus on collaboration? The philosophy behind collaboration is that...
Overcoming Design Challenges in Creating Shared Value
If you are seeking to link profitable business with social good, how do you overcome design challenges in creating shared value? The Role of Design Design is used extensively in reimagining and implementing social change, yet it has been largely missing in discussions...
Answering the Critics of Shared Value
The critics of shared value often misunderstand what it is (and isn't), highlighting the need for more discussion about the role it plays. And I come at this as a practitioner who is working with the principles every day with clients across all sectors, not as an...




