Stories from Henk Campher
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: Time to Call BS
Most of us in sustainability (CSR, citizenship, social change, activism etc) are shell shocked. Donald Trump is the President-elect for […]
November 10, 2016
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: Kicking the Puppy
Before you get too upset, let me make it very clear that you should never, ever kick puppies. Always a […]
June 28, 2016
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: We Are The 1 Percent
It started with a simple question from a good friend of mine considering a new job: “What do you think […]
March 18, 2016
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: The Anti-Trends for 2016 or "Enough is Enough"
I really wasn’t going to do this piece: the standard trends piece for the new year. Last year I wrote […]
January 6, 2016
Energy
The Quick & Dirty: Climate Change — Rinse and Repeat
I love watching Tom Cruise movies. They don’t ask too much of me and are always guaranteed to be a great popcorn […]
October 27, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: Leadership, Revisited
“To be a thought leader you need two things — a thought and leadership.” I can actually hear clients and […]
September 16, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: The Future of Business is in the Past
I breathe. Mostly oxygen but some other stuff too. I do this constantly. That tells you everything you need to […]
July 20, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: Minimum Wage … Hold the Applause
The minimum wage craze seems to have hit us from every angle. It seems as if every company is finding […]
May 4, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: From Snake Oil Sellers to Activists Brands
I keep on reading that companies are doing great work on the climate change and general sustainability front. Renewable energy […]
February 24, 2015
Finance
The Quick & Dirty: Trust Me (and Other Corporate Lies)
Full transparency: Our 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer is out. But I am not going to enunciate further on this study. […]
January 26, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: 9 Distractions We Can All Do Without in 2015
I know you are going to be flooded and fooled by a million pieces of cool new trends for 2015. […]
January 7, 2015
Finance
The Quick & Dirty: Snake Oil Sellers
Shayna Samuels and Glenn Turner of Ripple Strategies wrote a great piece on the reasons why a social mission should be at […]
October 10, 2014
Finance
The Quick & Dirty: Activists and Money Don't Mix
Last time around I got a few people upset when I wrote that activists saying they want to engage was little more than “sound washing.” Two […]
August 18, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: Is Engagement Nothing but Activist 'Sound Washing'?
By Henk Campher I’m a recovering activist. From being a trade unionist and anti-Apartheid activist to being an African development […]
June 16, 2014
Energy
The Quick & Dirty: You Can't Lead from the Middle
By Henk Campher I know, it’s been a while. Too many conferences and a book thrown in the mix too. […]
June 9, 2014
Finance
The Quick & Dirty: A CEO. A Leader. Sometimes We Need a Bit of Both.
By Henk Campher I participated in another great Twitter chat with Aman Singh from CSRwire and Nick Aster from Triple Pundit hosting […]
April 16, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: A Tale Of Two Cities — Rankings, Awards and Other Popular Myths
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was […]
March 27, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
The Quick & Dirty: The Free Market, a Good Excuse Until It's Not
Looks like hip new disrupter of motor vehicles, Tesla, is running into a few problems selling those silent vehicles of […]
March 19, 2014