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Representative image (Source: Reuters) At the edge of the Colombian Amazon, in an Indigenous village surrounded by oil rigs, the Siona people faced a dilemma. The United Nations Development Program, or UNDP, had just announced a $1.9 million regional aid package. In a village with no running water, intermittent electricity and persistent poverty, any money would mean food and opportunity. But the aid program was part of a partnership between the U.N. agency and GeoPark, the multinational petroleum company. The company holds contracts to drill near the Siona reservation, including one with the government that would expand operations onto what the Siona consider their ancestral land. To the Siona people on the Buenavista reservation, oil drilling is an assault, akin to draining blood from the earth. This collaboration is one example of how one of the world’s largest sustainable development organizations partners with polluters, even those that at times work against the … [Read more...] about In the Amazon, a UN agency has a green mission, but dirty partners

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin John Evans / CEO of Evans & Evans Consulting . We live in a hyper-commoditized world. So, how can you get your enterprise noticed and remembered? And the holy grail: How do you catalyze positive stories being told about your enterprise? Here’s part of the answer. Find, and designate in earnest, a chief experience officer, or CXO: someone in charge of going beyond the business at hand. For example, I consult for a Fortune 500 home repair company. After a robust coaching session with a division of the firm, something exciting happened. The refrigerator repair man made a visit to a client and did his job. He fixed the fridge. But he also did something more. While doing the work, he heard—remember, a tremendous client experience is all about information—that the homeowner had recently broken her ankle playing tennis. After completing his job excellently, he then reported what he learned to the CXO of his unit. … [Read more...] about Decommoditize Your Enterprise With A CXO

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The electronic duo of ODESZA (Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight) recently released their fourth album, The Last Goodbye . Coming a decade after their debut, Summer's Gone , the Washington state duo's latest album finds Mills and Knight growing up musically. Exploring a wide array of styles, including a healthy dose of atmospheric hooks, the record is ODESZA at their most vulnerable, including snippets of the band in therapy. I spoke with the pair about the new album, their dreams of scoring a movie, how the genre of electronic is growing up and seeing friends like Alison Wonderland and Rufus Du Sol inspires them, the current tour and much more. Steve Baltin: Where is today's hotel room? Clayton Knight: We're here in Everett Washington doing rehearsals right now. It's kind of like outside Seattle. Yeah, it's beautiful up here right now, the summer finally showed up. So we are happy that happened. [laughter] … [Read more...] about Q&A: ODESZA On ‘The Last Goodbye,’ Aspirations Of Scoring Movies And More

UPDATE The daughter of the victim who died in the recent car accident in Chon Buri has filed a complaint against the Highway Department and its relevant officers. She says she is furious with the highway police rescue team for not checking to see whether her father was still in the vehicle. She believes her father might still be alive had they checked inside the car. Today, the daughter went to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok to pick up her father’s body and take him back home to the Mab Ta Pud Sub-district, Mueng district, in Rayong province. She informed the media that she had already received an autopsy report from the doctors. The result showed that her father had broken ribs and internal blood in the parietal layer of the heart. She believed that her father could have died immediately as a result of these injuries, but that was no excuse and he should have gotten help in time. She added that the next autopsy result, which would reveal the cause of the … [Read more...] about UPDATE: Chon Buri police couldn’t find victim of car crash… on the back seat

I listened with some concern to a podcast titled "Middle Aged Men Need More Friends." It turns out that social isolation, in even small bites, can be as dangerous to men's long-term health as smoking or obesity. Even Alzheimer's disease occurs more often in men who are socially isolated. it made me think: Socially isolated? I certainly had the kind of life that checked the boxes, viz: Family obligations . For years, it seemed as if I was a cog in a well-oiled youth hockey machine. Drive to practices and games. Parents' meetings. Email chains. It was exhausting, probably because it was also for three kids. We ate at Taco Bell and did our laundry at midnight. Friends? Not unless they were in the traveling gas shortage known as the team car pool. Travel . I work with my clients the way an ornithologist studies birds: where they nest. You cannot be an effective alter ego to a company leader from the spare bedroom of your own house. You've got to get out. And so I … [Read more...] about I Lost Touch With Friends–Until I Discovered This Secret Weapon

People who are familiar with the story of Honest Tea may recall that I launched the company with my former Yale School of Management professor Barry Nalebuff. With Barry as board chair and me as the "TeaEO," we made a dynamic duo that built the idea from a startup with five thermoses and an empty Snapple bottle to a national brand acquired by the Coca-Cola Company in 2011. Barry, who kept his job as a Yale professor, is still a close friend and occasionally provides advice or helps edit our label messages. But as we mark Honest Tea's 20th anniversary this spring, there is another founder who didn't have her name on the label but has been the soul of the brand: my wife, Julie Farkas. In 1997, when I thought about leaving a promising job at Calvert mutual funds to launch a startup in an industry where I had no relevant experience (except that I drank beverages), Julie was the first person to support the idea. Even though we had three boys under the age of 6, including a … [Read more...] about Why My Spouse Was My Most Important Asset in Launching My Company

Howard Behar is former president of Starbucks Coffee Company International and the author of It's Not About The Coffee and The Magic Cup . During his tenure, he helped grow the company from 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning five continents. He retired in 2007. He now dedicates a large part of his time to the development and education of future leaders and has been a longtime advocate of Servant Leadership . In a recent interview with Bill Fox, co-founder of Container13 and editor of Forward-Thinking Workplaces™ , Behar talks about the virtuous behaviors and mindset that guided him throughout his successful 21-year tenure manning the ship at Starbucks. Six key (and often rare) principles for better leadership and a better life clearly stood out for me in this compelling interview. 1. Give your people room to make mistakes. Behar was asked by Fox how more companies are able to create workplaces where employees' voices matter and people … [Read more...] about Starbucks’ Former President Reveals 6 Leadership Traits That Led to His Wild Success

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Mark Bucknam is unveiling what life is like away from the sand for a professional beach volleyball player. The BYB Pictures director recently released the five-part series AVP Uncovered via YouTube, detailing how four professional beach volleyball players rode the highs and lows through the 2021 AVP season. The 25-year-old Florida Southern graduate explained how the idea became clearer the more he started to play and watch these athletes operate. “I wanted to watch a show like the one we just made,” Bucknam said. “One that was behind the scenes and into these people’s lives, showing you who they are as people and not just as competitors. That show didn’t exist for beach volleyball. I saw a real opportunity to combine the things I like to do the most, which is play beach volleyball and work on video documentaries.” Bucknam noted the stark contrast between a beach volleyball player’s path to the pro ranks as compared … [Read more...] about AVP Uncovered Tells The Not-So-Glamorous Side Of Professional Beach Volleyball Life