May 19, 2010
Dear all,
It has been around a year since my last latest post. For you who have been following my journey within the field of Social Entrepreneurship, I just want to let you know that I will continue blogging on my new company’s website
I hope to see you on my new website!
Thanks,
Julie
May 14, 2009
Last post I wrote about World Fair Trade day and People Tree, a Fair Trade fashion company from England. While we are at Fair Trade, I would like to write about another social enterprise “One Mango Tree” http://www.onemangotree.com . I was touched by their story and therefore would like to share it with you.
May 8, 2009
Tomorrow is World Fair Trade Day and I would like to contribute to the celebration by writing this post. I remembered the first time I heard about “Fair Trade”; it was around 10 years ago. To look back at the 10 years’ development, I must say that we have achieved a lot even though there is a long way to go. As an “innocent” consumer 10 years ago, I didn’t know anything about Fair Trade and could hardly find any Fair Trade product in supermarkets. If there was any, then it was definitely either tea or coffee. Could it be that it was easier to start up a Fair Trade business with coffee? But no matter what, the situation is very different now. It is possible to buy not only Fair Trade foods but also other Fair Trade products like clothes, handicrafts etc. So how far can we go with the Fair Trade movement? Can we imagine Fair Trade furniture, Fair Trade electronics, Fair Trade luxuries etc.? Can we imagine the day that Fair Trade becomes such a standard where it won’t even be necessary to be marketed as “Fair Trade”? If yes, what will happen to our capitalistic society? (more…)
April 16, 2009
In my previous post I have written about the interconnection between information, knowledge and wisdom. In this post, I would like to take it to a practical level and examine the actual actions that can be done in organizations. First of all, how do we turn information into knowledge? (more…)
March 3, 2009
Knowledge management is a concept that began to appear in academic journals in the 1980s. For some people, it can be a relatively new management concept. From my point of view, knowledge management is not new; it has always been there. Knowledge has always been sharing from generations to generations, from one human being to another. So the newness lies in the fact that it is first during the last 3 decades, managing knowledge becomes a conscious action that takes place in organizations. But unfortunately, in many cases, knowledge management has been about creating an IT system that extracts the “knowledge” or information from the employees, stores it and makes it accessible. That’s all?
I cannot help to flash back to all those martial movies that I used to love watching in the past. (more…)
February 9, 2009
Have you ever questioned yourself about the assumptions that you’re normally caring around with you? This could be related to any opinion, or just about people you meet or situations. I would say that most of us are not aware of our own assumptions, and sometimes what can hinder us to change are actually not lack of will or resources but our unawareness of these assumptions!
It was actually from school that I learned the importance of assumptions; and how we take them for “granted” and thereby never question their existence: what they do to our understanding of the world! An example: I took a class in Humanitarian Operations which was mostly about dealing with emergency relief situations. (more…)
February 5, 2009
I would like to start this post by asking you to do something very simple. Please sit comfortably (or lay down if possible) and close your eyes, focusing on nothing else than your breath. Observe it, don’t try to breathe faster or slower; just let the breathing happen naturally….
What do you observe? (more…)
