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Why Lean Earth?
Posts will explore how Lean – a learning system for developing people – can make sustainability work within your organization.
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Authenticity in Sustainability Transformations
Sustainability may be one of the most abused words of our time. Used so often and thoughtlessly, it no longer has any clear meaning. Its inference of environmental and social progress allows it to be worn with honour in countless Read more
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AI: Corporate Sustainability Tool or Progress Trap?
We cannot machine learn our way into a sustainable future. Localized benefits from AI will not offset its graver global impacts.
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Waste in Sustainability Transformation Work
These waste-drivers in the work of transforming companies misdirect and dissipate efforts causing delays, loopbacks, and rework that we cannot afford.
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The Misplaced Concreteness of Sustainability Reporting
By focusing on sustainability reporting are we favouring the abstract over the concrete? Reports themselves are not material—they are not the company.
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Sustainability’s Learning Curve: A Deeper Look
Break out of the naïve overconfidence of the illusion of sustainability and into the authenticity curve where true sustainability knowledge and know-how begins
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Sustainability Transformation’s Learning Curve
Most of what passes for corporate sustainability amounts to an illusion of progress. Reducing unsustainability will not lead us to sustainability. “We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing..” ― W. Edwards Deming
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Corporate Sustainability – Whose Job Is It?
Who is responsible for company sustainability? Everyone should be given the opportunity—and the means—to participate.
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Sustainability: A Story of Opportunities
Corporations are failing at sustainability. They need a new story – one that yields a livable future. The many young people looking for meaningful work are poised to be key players in that new story. If we let them.
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Mind the (Knowledge) Gaps
Everyone has blind spots and so does every company. Sustainability in practice is a discipline of discovery: to succeed, identify and close knowledge gaps.
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Visualizations: Getting the Sustainability Picture Right
As such a vague concept, sustainability begs graphical representation. If only we could sketch it out so it all just made sense.