At Tillmar Connect, we believe great companies are great community members. We’ve always operated this way, sharing our time and talents with our community in various ways and on various boards and associations. That includes RIF -- Reading is Fundamental, through my Rotary service at Milwaukee's Browning School. (Read more about my experiences there.)
It’s our way of being a socially responsible company.
We applaud those who are working to further define what it means to be a socially responsible organization or a socially responsible individual. We especially admire the work of The SRO, the social responsibility endeavor of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the world’s leading authority on quality, based in Milwaukee.
ASQ believes that to be socially responsible, people and organizations must behave ethically and with sensitivity toward social, cultural, economic, and environmental issues.
The SRO* is ASQ’s international movement to share insights and expertise on, and examples of, the evolving area of social responsibility, and to help define what it means to be a socially responsible organization. Visit www.theSRO.org and join the community. For more information, contact Sarah Tillmar at stillmar@asq.org.
ISO 26000- Standard on Social Responsibility
ASQ was awarded the administration of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Social Responsibility by the American National Standards Institute. The U.S. TAG is the U.S. member of an international working group chartered with developing an International Standard on Social Responsibility. ASQ’s involvement is a direct extension of its existing leadership role in standards development.
Social responsibility is in direct alignment with aspects of ASQ’s long-term objective to serve as stewards of the quality movement by ensuring that ASQ activities provide increased value to society and its members. To learn more, visit www.asq.org.
Read more in my June, 2011 Tillmar Connect newsletter.
"Do not depend on the hope of results.When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no worth at all, if not perhaps, results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. And there, too, a great deal has to be gone through, as gradually you struggle less and less for an ideal, and more and more for specific people. The range tends to narrow down, and it gets more real. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything." — Thomas Merton