Category: Social Responsibility

Best of the World Award for Workers In the shameless self-promotion department, Dharma is proud to announce winning a Best of the World Award for Workers. These are businesses that B Lab has determined have scored in the top 10 percent of all Certified B Corporations on the assessment, and is in recognition of how […]

Purpose Workplace diversity, gender equality, living wages, social impact, transparency, mindfulness in business, environmental impact, community engagement, triple bottom line (People, Planet, Profit) – whew! Plus we’ve embraced a fourth: Purpose. It used to be a person would start a business just to earn a little cabbage on which to live. Times have changed, as […]

Hope “Hope is a waking dream.” This quote is from the third century BC Greek philosopher, Aristotle, who was also a student of Plato. This remarkable man lived at a time when exploration of the inner and outer world flourished – biology, metaphysics, logic, poetry, linguistics, politics, theatre, and on and on. Our world has […]

Stakeholders I just returned from the Social Venture Network conference in San Diego, which is always my favorite annual event. This group, which has been in existence since 1987, works toward creating a just and sustainable world by supporting and promoting companies and their leaders through collaboration, self-reflection, and action. Aside from the insights and […]

2016 is The Year of Corporate Social Responsibility—Here’s Why One phenomenal change sweeping the corporate landscape is the concept known as corporate social responsibility, or CSR for short. This concept is incredibly promising because it shows that corporations are finally starting to listen to the needs of the consumer. They are finally starting to recognize […]

What’s for Breakfast? My bad. For years now, I have been attributing the expression “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” to the now deceased author and business expert, Peter Drucker. Turns out he never said that. Never wrote that either. I’m not the only one doing the misquoting, though, as I continue to see it being […]

Ideals to Consider I recently attended the annual Wisdom 2.0 conference here in San Francisco, which is billed as the intersection of Wisdom and Technology. ​Attendees from the tech sector, government, local sustainable companies, and representatives from mindfulness/teaching centers were convened to explore how mindfulness practices can impact a business in financial, employee engagement, empowerment, […]

A New Kind of Political Candidate? In Chinese astrology, 2016 is the Year of the Monkey – which makes total sense given the number of apes, chimps, and bonobos that are running for political office this year! I read that weaknesses of people under this sign are being egotistical, arrogant, crafty, restless, and snobbish, so I […]