Last year I dedicated my Christmas blog to the new addition of the Barbie collection, wheelchair user Becky and I thought it appropriate to talk about toys as Christmas rapidly creeps up on us to burn a hole in our pockets. As you know shopping online is the best way of making the pennies stretch [...] Read more
I don’t often go shopping, a trait I suspect I share with most men. It doesn’t happen often but when it does I like to think of it as a quasi-military operation: I go to a specific retailer for one or more specific items, I buy them and I leave. As Al Pacino would say, [...] Read more
Caroline Casey is speaking at the European Commission today in Brussels Promoting Social Entrepreneurship in Europe, with speakers such as Muhammad Yunus, Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services and Nick Hurd, Minister for civil society of the UK Entrepreneurship is a key part of creating a positive and sustainable change in society [...] Read more
Everything Kanchi does makes’ sense; we don’t make people do things because they feel like they have too. It makes sense for business to engage with the disability business case and disability community because it gives them access to unsaturated market spaces, talent, allows them to retain talented staff and manages their reputation during a [...] Read more
We all know people who like to think of themselves as “workaholic” but is their work ethic merely an excuse to avoid something that they do not want to face? An interesting article was recently published by an esteemed colleague of mine Alberto Andreau, Director of Corporate Sustainability in Telefonica which begs the question “Shall [...] Read more
