In "Results", a recent book by two Booz Allen Hamilton consultants, Gary Neilson and Bruce Pasternak, the authors talk about "the DNA of living organisations".
Long after many Americans cease to consciously and actively discriminate against racialised "others," there persists racist social patterns dictating where people live, which organisations they belong, what schools they attend and so on - that were created during slavery and de jure segregation.
In December 2014, Bono and Bob Geldof's Live Aid organisation released a star-studded "Ebola Christmas single".
Silicon Milkroundabout founder Pete Smith, who also co-founded the live music organisation tool Songkick, says the event opens the startup space to graduates, giving an umbrella benefit to small companies that can recruit together at one shared event.
The World Culture Festival, a three-day music, dance and yoga extravaganza, began on Friday, shortly after the National Green Tribunal criticised the festival organisers – the celebrated yoga guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and his Art of Living (AoL) organisation – for damaging the floodplain and interfering with the flow of the river.
Designed by John Pawson, it is the latest building in the Living Architecture organisation, set up six years ago by philosopher Alain de Botton, as a modernist answer to the Landmark Trust.
Last week, Stephen Bell, head of Changing Lives – an organisation that provides support for vulnerable people – called for an outright ban on street fundraisers, owing to the hard-sell tactics that are causing people to "turn their backs on charities".
Both cities join London on a final shortlist prepared by the Living Labs Global organisation's project Pilot the Future which initially looked at submissions from 350 places around the world.
Whether it's Apple or the John Lewis Partnership, the business world is full of examples of employees living their organisation's values and demonstrating that they are good corporate citizens.
