Posts tagged with corporate responsibility:

Goodbye, Facebook
November 22, 2012, by Stephan Polomski in Corporate Social Responsibility, Marketing

Do you like lobster? Cooking one appears quite cruel: you put the lobster alive into boiling water, the head first. A friend of mine is a professional cook; he uses a nail and a hammer killing the lobster before cooking it. These are the animal friendly ways of handling the issue. However, there are people, [...]

Social Entrepreneurship – Changing Paradigms
January 8, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Resources, Leadership, Management

Why am I doing it almost every day, five days a week or even more?
What is motivating me to do what I do almost every day of my life?
What is the vision for myself when I am doing it almost every day, and on the basis of which values, for which purpose?
What do I expect [...]

“Reaching the Top…
September 23, 2009, by Stephan Polomski in Corporate Social Responsibility, Features, Human Resources, Leadership, Management

… is not the objective” – that was what Hanspeter Eisendle, our mountain guide, said, just when we reached Cassian´s Peak at 2581 meters height in the Sarentin Alps in South Tyrol last week.
After some hours marching through walls of fog and the sentiment of deception that the Dolomites and their spectacular summits on the [...]

The Dark Side of Care I
August 25, 2009, by Stephan Polomski in Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership

Who does not know this inner impulse seeing somebody obviously in need and then addressing him: “May I help you?” Or more sublime: “Do you have enough support”. Or less sublime: “Why don’t you do it this way.” Or even: “I show you the right way.” And finally: “I will help you.”
So, what exactly is [...]

Employer Branding during Recession
August 9, 2009, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Marketing

Even senior managers – this is what I experience – misunderstand employer branding as a mere recruiting tool designed with the purpose of “selling” the employer to selected candidates. In this perceptive landscape the employment becomes a product sold by the company as employer. In this landscape a working contract – money for my time, [...]

Why Caring while Leading?
August 2, 2009, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership

When I was returning from my summer holidays in South of France I found my seat just aside of a man around forty who was travelling with his wife and his kids. Apparently, the family was on their way home as well. I was reading the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, headline: VW takes over Porsche.
Having the [...]