Jonathan J. Halperin
Jonathan J. Halperin
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Communications and Perceptions

If corporate sustainability reports are not the reality, but rather the shadow cast on the wall of Plato’s cave, what comes next to propel continuous improvements in actual corporate behavior across an integrated or triple-bottom line?

Sunday, April 7, 2024

I cannot continue to fly the Israeli flag.

With apologies to The Grateful Dead, ‘what a long, strange trip’ it has been since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. That is when I hoisted the Ukrainian flag in front of my house and put 200 little Ukrainian flags on my lawn with a note inviting neighbors to please take one if they wanted to show opposition to a ground war in Europe in the 21st century. Although they have faded now, they were all taken and planted around my neighborhood in Maryland.

Sunday, November 12, 2023

In a world that seems increasingly fractured, what connects us – as people, as teams and as communities? How well we understand the complexity of connection may hold the key to unlocking success.

Tuesday, July 26, 2022
My experience this week at Heathrow is a small but telling example of the global risk many businesses face: multiple systems failing simultaneously.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
I have never been to the Russian Air Base on the Eastern edge of Ukraine in Millerovo, where attack helicopters, tanks, armored personnel carriers, and ground forces have begun the Russian invasion. The last time I was in eastern Ukraine, in Luhansk (about 60 miles from Millerovo), I visited a military plant that was then converting to syringe manufacturing. I was with Yuri Shchekochikhin who represented the region as a member of Parliament.
Monday, January 11, 2021
Fear, collusion, and incompetence are a deadly combination. That we couldn't defend the Capitol from an insurrectionist mob was a failure not of intelligence but a failure to be intelligent.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
We all now have personal experience with the collapse of supply chains: toilet paper, produce, meat, flour. They are more fragile than we knew, for many reasons.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Helsinki was not an aberration. It is time we stopped being shocked. Trump and Putin share common goals and values: absolute need for loyalty, disdain for free and fair elections, willingness to use and discard people, and antipathy toward media.
Friday, December 8, 2017
Many corporate leaders still wonder both what purpose looks like operationally and whether it really generates value.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Five years ago today, as the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown were still emerging, The New York Times published my letter observing that “trust comes not from repeated and paternalistic proclamations of success, but rather from the humble admission of mistakes followed by demonstrable changes in behavior and attitude.”
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Across the American presidential campaign landscape, change might look like a neo-fascist with a toupee, a scrappy septuagenarian democratic socialist, or the familiar face of a woman who might become our first female president. Quite a spectacle we present to the world.

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