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Unlocking Sustainability with Data

We now have more than a "Cray in every tray" (http://www.cray.com/Home.aspx). Computer memory storage advances and cost decreases have now allowed us...
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Direct Partners Presents the Goodified eBook

Direct Partners Presents the Goodified eBook

“Progressive ideas for doing good.”

Contributors include: Tony Schwartz, Shep Hyken, Marc Gunther, Aron Cramer, Jonathan Fields, Auren Kaplan, Seth Kushner, Douglas Rushkoff, Stephen Shapiro, Leo Babauta, Scott Belsky, Joel Makower, Albert Lin, Sloane Berrent, Henrik Edberg, Dr. Armin Ellis, Andrew Winston, Ruth Honore, Tony Tjan, Thomas Seeley, Rusty Rueff, Tania Mulry, Saul Kaplan, and more.

What is Goodified?

Goodified is our take on Conscious Capitalism, the idea that companies exist for a greater purpose than to just make profits. Companies can be successful while enhancing the quality of life. It works by building honest and altruistic relationships with all of a business’s stakeholders: its consumers, employees, investors, vendors, environment and community. By harmonizing the interests of all stakeholders, strong and authentic relationships form.

A fundamental element of this is providing value in all relationships. And that’s what we wanted to do. That is why we have created the Goodified eBook.

During the holiday season, we reached out to some of the brightest and most influential figures in a number of different industries and disciplines, seeking progressive ideas for doing good. We received a number of innovative and exciting ideas in areas ranging from business and marketing, to physics, philosophy and society as a whole. We designed and compiled these inspirational ideas into an eBook that we hope you enjoy and wish to share.

Thank you.

We want to thank all of the contributors, supporters and the Goodified team.

We wish you the very best in 2011.

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Context Impacts Authenticity

The subhead to his work is “It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear.” This simple truth is one that holds in any presentation of information. Think about your audience. They matter. It also speaks to a need for consistency, though. Because the context of the speaker delivering the message will impact the authenticity of the message. As Luntz says, “Messengers who are their own best message are true to themselves.”
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J&J’s Brian Perkins’ New Model for Agencies

J&J is well aware of the success that comes with a new marketing paradigm shift from "brand positioning" to "brand value".
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Better Prudent than Good?

"Debts are subject to the laws of mathematics rather than physics. Unlike wealth, which is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, debts do not rot with old age and are not consumed in the process of living. On the contrary, they grow at so much per cent per annum, by the well-known mathematical laws of simple and compound interest ... It is this underlying confusion between wealth and debt which has made such a tragedy of the scientific era." Read more how Frederick Soddy's 1926 "Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt" applies today.
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McLuhan’s Light Bulb

Have you turned on a light bulb in your day?
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Outside What Box?

There is a proverbial box. It’s the place where we put the things that we can easily categorize. It’s a box, because it’s square. The analogy is there for a reason. Nice and neat little box. But does the push to "think outside this box" limit how far we can go?
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