JOHN ELKINGTON, one of the giants in the field of sustainability. Is credited with the widely used framework of the triple bottom line, also known as people plant and profit. His recent blog offers a welcome optimistic perspective* for the future role of business in...
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Beyond Mitigation: Would You Work In a Regenerative Business?
If a Regenerative Business creates products or services that contribute to solving our social, economic and environmental problems, rather than just mitigating negative effects -would you want to work for it?If a Regenerative Business focused on social, economic and...
Can and Should Organization Designers Help Businesses Build a Better Society?
https://vimeo.com/932653499 In addition to traditional concerns about cost, agility and quality, our clients [and us] are being challenged with their record on SDG’s, ESG, DEI+B in the world outside their organizations. While these challenges overlap significantly,...
Beyond Start-ups: Opportunities To Build a Better World?
Wow! A search in Fastcompany.com/magazine for “start-ups”, left me gazing at no less than 14,437 stories. – many of which are banking on pursuing business prosperity through building a better world, not as a side activity, but as a core strategy. Compelling...
The Fight For a Better World
Full Disclosure: I rely on Capitalism and shareholder returns AND I abhor the movement to re-focus business exclusively on shareholder returns. Why? For the bulk of my adult life, I made my living by founding and running my own professional service business. To plan...
Reinventing Capitalism – what does that mean?
Stakeholder capitalism, Inclusive Capitalism, The New Capitalism... all these and more are names being given to the movement to "reinvent capitalism" Driving this is the recognition that our economic model for value creation and distribution, driven by Milton...