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Can businesses that prioritise social values be a commercial success? 4 steps to ensuring those you work with reflect your ethos

When times are tough, as they certainly have been over the last year, people tend towards one of two camps – those who are predominantly inward-looking, protecting what’s theirs (their home, their family, their friends), and those who are predominantly…

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Apple investigation found labour abuses in supplier factory: 3 ways to encourage closer cultural alignment

Optics are important in today’s commercial world – how you ‘look’ in the eyes of your consumer matters, more than ever before. Companies invest heavily in developing their audience’s perception of their brand – the ethics, morality and mission that…

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Boohoo’s billion-pound supplier cultural alignment problem; how to assure your strategic supplier’s values align with your own

A couple of months ago, news broke of challenges in a number of Leicester-based clothing factories. Reports suggested that workers were being paid below the minimum wage, with allegations of exploitation and human trafficking and of a workforce forced to…

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