Archive For The “Business” Category

What’s Really Supporting the ‘Glass Ceiling’?

By | August 15, 2010

Nowadays, it is pretty much taken as read that the ‘glass ceiling’ prevents women from attaining the professional success – and commensurate financial reward – that they deserve. An article by Sarah Arnott, published yesterday in The Independent, reinforced this perspective, describing the “stark inequality” of the gender balance in UK boardrooms and quoting Nan [...]

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Peak Oil – for businesspeople.

By | March 5, 2010

Below is a piece I wrote as a guest of Birds on the Blog. I found it an interesting challenge to write about a subject potentially so emotive in a way that, I hope, allows people who might be less aware of ecological concerns both to accept it and to find something of value in [...]

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