News & announcements from January 2010
Getting Ecological Transparency Right
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Call it death by Froot Loops. The food industry’s much-ballyhooed, and hugely expensive, Smart Choice campaign was launched last August and pulled just months later. Why? Questionable products like Froot Loops and Cocoa Crispies got a Smart Choice green check of approval. The New York Times slammed the campaign in an article headlined, “For Your…
Leading the Necessary Revolution: Building Alignment in Your Business for Sustainability
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Peter Senge and Daniel Goleman discuss ways to drive your organization’s shift to sustainability using the right approach, tools, and vision
The Radical Horizon: A Primer on Business Sustainability
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010A primer on the demand for transparent products & processes, and how to evaluate ecological upgrades, featuring Dara O’Rourke and Gregory Norris
Green Intelligence: Toward True Ecological Transparency
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Several months ago, Wal-Mart made an announcement that could set off an ecological earthquake: The giant retailer disclosed it was cooperating with an academic consortium to develop a sustainability index for rating its hundreds of thousands of products.
Welcome to the website and blog of psychologist Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Dr. Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books) was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half; with more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide in 40 languages, and has been a best seller in many countries.