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    Are you vigilant against earning undue profit at the cost of the community?

    by Quaker in Business about 19 hours ago

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    If asked to support a local activity, try to find some way in which you can participate. How does your reputation stand locally?

    by Quaker in Business Saturday, 04 September 2010 07:45

  • Quaker in Business

    Are you actively involved in working for the improvement of the community in which you work?

    by Quaker in Business Friday, 03 September 2010 07:40

  • Quaker in Business

    Try to manage your business affairs so as to be an asset to the community and not an annoyance.

    by Quaker in Business Thursday, 02 September 2010 07:40

  • Quaker in Business

    Although it is easier to be recognised for what you do in a small community, in a large city the same concern for the community applies.

    by Quaker in Business Wednesday, 01 September 2010 07:40

Getting to New Light (5pm 2 November 2010)

Spirit founded Coaching skills for owners and managers

We get most from our learning when it is based on everyday issues balanced with practical content. This 24 hour workshop is highly interactive providing a shared productive and fun learning experience. Download the full programme

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Risk and reward: tempering the pursuit of profit PDF Print E-mail
Written by Eoin McCarthy   

Quakers and Business members Paul Moxey, Bob Tilley and Eoin McCarthy contribute, with others, to

"Risk and reward: tempering the pursuit of profit"

This paper is has been well received in the city as a significant contribution to the curent debate on financial reform.  It has been made available by the ACCA

Down load it at

http://www.accaglobal.com/pubs/general/activities/library/governance/cg_pubs/tech-afb-rar.pdf

and see our contribution on pages 37 and 41

 
Quakers defend BP investment PDF Print E-mail
Written by Symon Hill   

"Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has defended its investment of over half a million pounds in BP. BYM, the organisation of Quakers across England, Scotland and Wales, has a higher proportion of its investments in the oil giant than in any other business.

BYM say it has engaged with BP on issues such as renewable energy..."

Read the article in The Friend.

 
News Update - June 2010 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Tim Phillips   

Greetings all. It’s a bit long, with numerous writers & improvers - thanks to you all, Friends - so here’s the guide:

A. 4 Coming Events;

B. 3 Recent Events (Spring Gathering, NxDs, BYM);

C. 2 New Initiatives (Governance, Love & Trusteeship; a Quaker Bank & Finance entity?);

D. Officers’ report on strategy implementing; plus

E. An Appeal from a new, Keighley LM, Quaker Charity: Scholarships for Street Kids in Burma.

Read more...
 
Getting to New Light PDF Print E-mail
Written by Paul Whitehouse   

Alistair Russell and Sandra Goddard are providing a workshop on spiritually founded coaching skills for managers and owners from 5pm Tues 2 to 5pm Wed 3 November at Charney Manor, near Oxford. The workshop will help you recognise opportunities to coach in the maelstrom of daily working life and grab them. The workshop should enable you to: develop your team to enable you to delegate more; help your colleagues to recognise the resources they can bring to problem solving rather than being stuck with the problem; support your colleagues in thinking through difficulties; challenge your team to see issues from different perspectives and enable them to address them in new successful ways. The workshop will be highly interactive with a variety of exercises to support integration of your learning and its practical application. I am confident that you will have a productive and fun learning experience.

Download the full programme here.  To book see the blue panel above.

For further information contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 
The Spirit Level : why equality is better for everyone PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jo Poole   

Richard Wilkinson will deliver a lecture on "The Spirit Level : why equality is better for everyone"

Friday 9th July at 7.30 for 8pm at Jordans Quaker Meeting House HP9 2SN.

www.newjordans.org

Tickets (£10) from Cáit Gould on 01494 876594   e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
What HR and Business can learn from the Quakers PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jo Poole   

Suzie Bogle writes about what can be learnt from the Quakers here

 
Taming the Corporations PDF Print E-mail
Written by Paul Whitehouse   
“Cleaning up politics is a necessary precondition for effective corporate governance reform and for subordinating the business agenda to broader social needs . . .
 
"They buy places at Labour’s “high plate” party dinners, governmental advisory committees, task forces, and Think Tanks, and contributions to party funds facilitate titles, contracts and jobs for those who make them. In return, New Labour, like the Conservatives, defers to the donors.  .  .
 
“Despite numerous audit failures, the ‘colonisation’ of senior civil servants, current and former ministers has enabled them to escape effective regulation and retribution. The colonised include Peter Mandelson . . .
  
“Proposals made in this monograph are intended to ensure that corporations are brought under democratic control and the institutions of democracy are reinvigorated.”
 
 
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Something to consider

‘Life becomes simplified when dominated by faithfulness to a few  concerns.  Too many of us have too many irons in the fire.  We get distracted by the intellectual claim to our interest in a thousand and one good things, and before we know it we are lulled and  hauled breathlessly along by an over-burdened programme of good committees and good undertakings … Undertakings get plastered on from the outside because we can’t turn down a friend. Acceptance of service … should really depend upon an answering imperative within us, not merely upon a  rational calculation of the factors involved.  The concern-oriented life is ordered and organized from within.  And we learn to say No as well as Yes by attending to the guidance of inner responsibility.’

from ‘A Testament of Devotion’ by Thomas Kelly

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