Public services should be designed to encourage or enable people to behave like citizens. In the private sector, with some welcome exceptions, they design to encourage people to be consumers.
It's back.
Purposefest in full swing here at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social. Thank you everyone for all your questions! #BCorpMonth
Bristol here I come!
My first #BCorpMonth stop is the wonderful Purposefest at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social. Beautiful day for it.
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Welcome to #BCorpMonth!
It was a logistical feat to put immigration in place at Amsterdam but it's sorted now. Where there's a will there's a way.
On this 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I think of Rudolf Vrba, one of only a handful of Jews ever to escape the camp - who did it to warn the world. I told his story when I was a guest on the brilliant Rest is History podcast. You can hear that here open.spotify.com/episode/1Ezd...
As is this.
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Well worth your time.
History as an academic discipline is also pretty good for this - the idea of a teleological improvement in the human condition is far from mainstream there (even fringe?)
Rest in peace Charles Handy. A brilliant thinker on people, businesses and organisations.
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(Some) LAs build great housing, but their capacity to do so is tiny.
The connected question is who are we expecting to do the building. If it's private sector developers, we have to regulate to get outcomes beyond profit maximisation. If it's eg Local Government, we have to build LAs capacity to act as a developer.
Would be interesting to see domestic / international pupil split on that
Belfast Harbour Commissioners Office brushes up well
Good afternoon Belfast.
So I can work for a (perceived) top tier "London" consultancy firm and easily live in Leeds. If I work for a (perceived) top tier "London" law firm it would be very hard for me to live in Leeds.
Agreed. But top tier consultants are now able to live / base themselves all over the country in a way they weren't before covid, the lawyers (still) aren't.
Agree on law. I think it's a bit different on e.g. management consultancy where there is an increasing amount of remote work / less mgt demand to come in to the office.
Recognise it's reasonable to question whether the Tortoise sale is a good thing, but this "the Scott Trust is actually limited company" objection is a nonsense.
The reason for the Trust taking ltd company status is explained here, its objects are locked in etc pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Good to see the statutory levy for gambling, which requires operators to set aside 1% of their gross profits to fund treatment, research and prevention finally coming to fruition. Not least due to the tireless efforts of my @smfthinktank.bsky.social colleague @jranoyes.bsky.social
"The Guardian was the first major international news organisation to achieve B Corp status in 2019 – which means meeting a series of criteria for high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability."
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Liam Byrne on tomorrow's budget:
"We still have too many businesses focused solely on maximising their own short-term gain. To create real change, boards must take a more holistic view of success which requires advancing a new model for marketplace success."
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"Despite what they described as a "significant financial blow", the business said it had honoured its commitment to its small-scale suppliers and had already paid the three artisan cheesemakers in full."
Well done Neal's Yard Dairy.
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Transport is really marginal in the environment impact / carbon emissions of almost any foodstuff (unless it's transported by air) - good data here interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-...
If you can find them, Spanish soft fruit probably still being ripened by the sun (it's a sunny 25 degrees in Málaga this week)
