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A CONFIDENT LEADER11/11/2020 I was walking in the snow with my daughter today.
She's leading and would want me to follow her tracks. When I'm feeling tired, she asked me to push on. When we get to the top overlooking the yard, she asked me not to look down, whatever happens, or else I might slip. If I feel am slipping or getting stuck, she would hold my hand and steady me. She asked me to follow the tracks closely and not to deviate. She also reminded me not to make my own tracks because she's the bus driver. She also reassured me that she knows where she's going and that I need to trust her. When she's doing the loop-to-loop, that means that I have to just go along with the loop. When it's time to go home, she will lead me home. She tells me to enjoy and have an adventure. If you have a firm and confident leader like that, there's nothing you can't do! Cheers!
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GROWING AND FRAGMENTING11/9/2020 Yesterday, I presented a special lecture with Prairie College Business Management students on Fair Trade. As I have been updating myself about this topic, a few headlines grab my attention:
Kitkat withdrawing from Fair Trade Fairtrade : Is it really fair? Shocked but not surprised: Fairtrade responds to report of widespread child labor in West African cocoa industry The system is not perfect but it is working for a lot of farmers, artisans, and producers in the South. The current labelling and certification process for fairtrade has become a million dollar industry. Ethical consumers are beginning to vote with their purchases and this trend will be going to continue in the next 10 years. The question for the actors is that how can we prevent consumer confusion with all these competing claims in the marketplace? The fairtrade sector is growing at an accelerated rate from $ 1.5M in 2005 to $9.8B in 2018. Yet, fragmenting in many ways due to the crowding of claims within and outside of the ethical/fair markets. There has been tremendous harmonization of fairtrade. All actors understand, agree, and commit to its principles and standards. In the future, actors must as well agree and commit to growing and evolving fairtrade without compromising its foundational principles but at the same time, honoring its commitments to the broader marketplace. The heart of true fairtrade lies in the producers and farmers. If they're not benefitted from these initiatives, why would fairtrade exists?
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CONTRADICTIONS OF OUR TIME11/3/2020 Isn't Dickens amazing? He was able to describe the times we are living right now!
We have the best of times, we have the worst of times It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity It was the Season of Light, it was the Season of darkness It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair We had everything before us, we had nothing before us We are all going direct to Heaven, we are all going direct in the other way Charles Dickens |
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