John Featherby

How does B Lab determine different worker types? Full Time Workers: Work all 12 months of the year, 37.5 hrs a week (or equivalent FT in your country. Part Time Workers: Work all 12 month of the ye...

B Lab UK is light footprint. There are not many of them. The responsibility to grow the movement falls mostly on the B Corps themselves. High On The Awareness Raising Their primary role is to raise...

There is a huge variety of certifications, accreditations, badges and awards given to companies these days, and rightly so - ranging from diversity issues to fair trade marks. The B Corp certificat...

We must take personal responsibility for our personal mastery, and books are a good place to start. These are books are built around a particular case study scenario. There are also articles on "Wh...

There are five primary reasons for the widespread use of annual appraisals: Status quo management loves standardisation, efficiency and compartmentalisation; the annual appraisal is a classic repr...

The word ‘Teylu’ (“Tay-loo”) is Cornish for ‘family’. A Teylu is a small group that meets to build relationship and do something that matters.     A Teylu models the culture, characteristics and c...

How does B Lab define a "Significant Supplier"? Significant Suppliers are those who make up the top 80% of your company’s expenditures (not including employee salaries).    

Common Identities Different people have different motivations for pursuing the B Corp model. B Lab UK has identified six common ones; all are valid and many people fall into more than one.   The...

There may be a requirement to redesign an appraisal process from the ground up. But the idea is not to replace what's there with a new suite of inflexible tools and forms that, in fragmenting the a...

We must take personal responsibility for our personal mastery, and books are a good place to start. All the disciplines covered under this article are broadly covered across the FAQs "what are some...