The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
God will forgive me that's his business.
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
In the social business marketplace brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.
In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.
Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.
The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.
Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.
In the coming years if not sooner social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and I suggest move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.
As a speaker business leader or marketer of any type the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically socially ethically and morally.
Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with or find disagreeable so it's important to stress that balance.
Really I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady you know 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Like sex in Victorian England the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have especially not Bret Hart.
The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
After hurting myself like that I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business and to be successful.
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.