Today in Global Small Business: How CSR and ESG Can Fuel a Strong Company Culture

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• How corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) fueled strong company culture at Kyndryl.  Lessons to learn.
• Mistakes that can happen in the global marketplace.
• Quote of the week: “People like to know that the companies they interact with and buy from are companies that do good in the world.” – Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
• How investors feel about ESG initiatives.
• By prioritizing ESG today, SMEs can look forward to a successful future.
• Why you should care about ESG.

Climate Change is a Growing Global Challenge

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Back from Lyon, France after attending the World Entrepreneurship Forum. I will report about it later this week (catch a quick glimpse of award ceremony venue here).

In the meantime, a new APEC website for the Environmental Goods and Services Information Exchange (EGSIE) went live. The EGSIE is an innovative new website that will promote information-sharing and collaboration related to cutting edge environmental technologies in the Asia-Pacific region and will also promote the dissemination of such technologies globally.

Learn more here.