Hello CCSD Community

Check out this week’s content below. We hope you find it informative and inspirational.

In the news

August 21st NY Times article: How the Social Mission of Ben & Jerry’s Survived Being Gobbled Up. How Ben & Jerry’s were able to remain as mission driven as ever AND triple their revenue under Unilever. Plus help drive Unilever to become more conscious itself. 

Impact

According to the DDI research report, Leaders in Transition, “… the business case for gender diversity has never been stronger…Companies in the bottom 20 percent of financial performance had only 19 percent women in leadership positions; companies in the top 20 percent have 37 percent female leadership.”

Good Read

Reinventing Organizations – From the author: “It [this book] is written as a handbook for people (founders of organizations, leaders, coaches, and advisors) who sense that something is broken in the way we run organizations today and who feel deeply that more must be possible… but wonder how to do it.”