Two groups dedicated to sustainability — the London-based Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) and the Amsterdam-based Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) — today announced (pdf) the formation of an organization to develop and promote global standards for companies to report both their financial performance and their performance in the areas of environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and governance in an integrated fashion. This is important because integrated reporting is the best way to ensure that companies have sustainable strategies; define them in financial, economic, social, and governance terms; and then communicate the results.

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It’s Time to Standardize Integrated Reporting of Financial and Sustainability Performance

In business many of us come down with headaches several times a year due to the lack of speed with information delivery. There is nothing worse then having the utmost important information that needs to get out asap and it takes several day’s or even a week or more to reach our clients. So how do we change the speed that our information gets out

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Speeding Up Your Information Delivery

Some people that may be contemplating if buying a franchise right now during a not so great economy may be asking themselves if it is such a good idea. Should you wait a few more years before buying your franchise or is now just as good of time as any to buy your franchise

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Buying A Franchise

News Corp is considering launching a digital news business targeting users of e-readers such as the Kindle and iPad, according to reports.

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News Corp looks at launching e-reader division

Just a few quick updates for you this morning: Reader Questions In the past I’ve very rarely published reader questions on the site. However, I’d like to start doing that more.

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Reader Questions, Ad Disclosures, and a Book Club Reminder

Markus Dohle, chief executive of Random House, was interviewed by German magazine Der Spiegel about the changes he sees e-books making to the book market. (Reuters has an English translation .) In terms of e-books as a percentage of Random House’s total bookselling revenue: “We’re at 8 percent in the United States currently, it rose by leaps and bounds,” Dohle told Der Spiegel.

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Random House CEO expects US e-book revenue to pass 10% next year

Harvard Business Review : As a manager or leader, do you let your people assume more responsibility when they are able? Do you know when that is, or do you keep telling yourself that they aren’t ready yet?

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Empowering Your Employees

Some successful businessmen buy into their hype and start commenting on things outside their expertise. Nilekani isn’t one of those people – he is a serious intellectual whose brilliant book should be read by everyone with an interest in … They include pensions and energy which are both enormous problems, and that doesn’t include things which everyone accepts needs work like education and infrastructure

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Pickled Politics » Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani

The latest reports that banks are lending more come from FDIC’s objective of asking larger banks to lend more or to not be “model based”Because banks, like any other private business, will determine just what business to follow up on and how they will do it. Although the banking industry is doing better than it

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Accounts Receivable Factoring Instead of Bank Loans

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A recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that awards of personal injury and injury to feelings relating to a tortious act (such as a failure to make reasonable adjustments in a disability discrimination claim) that pre-dates the termination of employment are not taxable and, consequently, should not be subject to ‘grossing up’. This case did not change the existing law, but the correct approach to tax and grossing up, both on termination payments and on tribunal awards, is an area that often causes confusion for employment lawyers

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Dr. Richard Baron, a Philadelphia internist who’s unusual in that he’s both a private-practice clinician and a well-published and -respected academic (he was recently ABIM Chair ), has been mixing it up in the pages of the New England Journal. To readers of this blog, it’ll be useful armchair review: not just because the theme of generalist clinicians’ decline should concern us, but because the blog itself comes into play! The topic of the day: why primary care doctors are in trouble

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Condos to Castles… “It’s Your Move!” It’s the bane of all real estate agents. Sure we have happy past clients and that thing we, in the industry, call a “sphere of influence.” It’s that old business from whence much of our future employment will come. But, every day, we wake up unemployed and must focus at

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Truth in Agent Advertising – A little continuing education for those who need it.

Watching fellow college students working for $7.50 an hour after graduation, Tana Walther, a fashion-design major at Kent State University in Ohio, snapped up an alternative offered by her father—to run a Pita Pit restaurant franchise he would buy. “I guess I bought her a job,” says her father, Jan Walther, of North Canton, Ohio. According to The Wall Street Journal , parents often say they would do anything for their child.

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When The Folks Give You The Biz

Now that Justin Avery Anderson’s soft granola has made it to the shelves of Whole Foods and Central Market, he hopes to take it all the way to the White House reports The Dallas Morning News . “I have not contacted the White House, but that’s the plan for the next few weeks,” the 23-year-old says.

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Soft Granola Leads Entrepreneur On The Trail To Success

We are told over and over again by all the top internet marketers that the money is in the list. In other words you need to build a list of people who are willing to buy goods or services that you recommend to them and the bigger your list the more likely you are to make sales.

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Some E-mail Methods to Use for Your Online Business Promotions

Red boxes, red envelopes and the blue and yellow Blockbuster stores may dominate the movie rental landscape, but according to a recent survey, when Americans want to watch a DVD, they are most likely to turn to their local library. The Hartford Courant reports the survey, released this year by OCLC, a nonprofit library co-operative and research organization, found that public libraries in the United States lend an average 2.1 million videos every day, slightly more than the 2 million that Netflix ships

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Libraries Stack Up

The Houston Inventors Association and the University of Houston Small Business Development Center are having the Fourth Annual Inventors Tradeshow on Wednesday August 11, 2010 from 5 to 8:30 pm. In addition to members of the Houston Inventors Association, we have invited inventors from other surrounding areas. We have also invited representatives from local companies and organizations that help inventors solve problems and help businesses get started to answer questions and make presentations about their services

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4th Annual Houston Inventors Tradeshow

There must have been an enormous sigh of relief among BP employees — from the front line to the boardroom — on Tuesday, when their CEO Tony Hayward’s finally resigned. However he was perceived — as villain, incompetent or, scapegoat — what’s clear is that Hayward was failing spectacularly as their leader almost from the outset of the oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Handling the Fall-out from a Failing Leader

WomenEntrepreneur.com dishes out inspiration from current mompreneurs. • Royn Pellei of Vive Vita thought she was getting her big break when a big company became interested in one of her baby products. That company soon decided the product was unacceptable

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Never Quit!