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Telling Fairy Tales in the Board Room
Book ReviewsGovernance

Beating the dragons: Fairy tales in the board room

August 18, 2020
Fairy tales are typically something for kids. Particularly young kids. Over the centuries they have been used to convey fundamental social mores, warnings from danger, and to inoculate a shared understanding of what ‘good’ and ‘bad’ looks like. These characteristics though make fairy tales an ideal, if very uncommon, vehicle to convey information and learnings also in management literature. This book hence is a rare find.
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Doughnut and Nature
Biz StrategyCircularity

If cities can, business can too – Downscaling the doughnut

August 11, 2020
Over the last 12 months, the Doughnut Economics Action lab developed a methodology – denominated ‘Creating City Portraits’ - , tested in three different cities of the global North. So the question is: Could the methodology work for business too? The answer: Yes in principle. But commitment is at the heart of it.
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Plastics Packaging in Bales
Biz StrategyCircularityGovernance

EU Plastic Waste Tax – Or: What went wrong, when compliance fuels R&D?

August 4, 2020
The cat is – long-time coming - finally left out of the bag: while drawing up a Covid19 recovery package, EU legislators have decided to introduce a levy on non-recycled plastic as per 1st of January 2020. Reading through the text, two points offer a considerable surprise: The short notice, the wording, and the focus on packaging. But how come that legislators seem to drive the industry R&D agenda? Here a few questions for boards to ask their CEOs to get to the bottom of this.
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Black Swan Image
Biz StrategyDefinitionsGovernance

Natural Capital and the Board: The Commons = Asset, not Income

July 28, 2020
Many of the most important resources our current civilisation depends on – all of them finite natural resources - form part of what historically would have been called ‘The Commons’. And yet, many of them are economically treated as 'income' and not the valuable and finite 'assets' they are. That again is the tragedy of the commons.
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Mind the Gap
Biz StrategyDefinitionsSupply Chain

Mind the Gap: Language Matters

July 14, 2020
The supply chain. It has been accepted a long-time ago: supply chain is a risk. Or better: a RISK in capital letters. But also a word that sounds impersonal. Very akin to a factory being a cogwheel in a much larger clockwork. And while the definition of the term does list ‘people’, the focus is very clearly on the idea of it all being a neat system of seamless interactions.
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Cape Town Dancing Woman Mural
Biz StrategyGovernanceOpinions

The Colours of Us: Go serious – Or go home

July 7, 2020
This post is going to be somewhat more personal than how I usually write. Normally, I try to write and argument as factually and data driven as possible. I’m not one that feels comfortable to carry my emotions on my sleeve. And even less as some of the topics I write about are truly important to me. But: There are a couple of things that upset me in the present. They related to the #blacklivesmatter movement on the one hand, but maybe more specifically to the related discussion on #racism – globally. -> Includes a list of practical resources for corporate boards
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Board and C-suite Responsibility.
Biz StrategyGovernance

Selling or embedding: Governance, Corporate Responsibility, and the role of the C-Suite

June 30, 2020
Unless the top line of company executives are held accountable for and judged by their contribution to the company’s risk management and mitigation efforts, including importantly CSR and sustainability performance, the company will struggle. Without senior commitment and engagement, the system only ever allows for minor ‘bug fixes’.
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I will be a hummingbird
DefinitionsGovernanceOpinions

Manifesto of a Hummingbird*

June 23, 2020
The Manifesto of a Hummingbird: . 13 + 1 ways to make a stance for responsible business and leadership.
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The Most Beautiful Job in the World - Mensitieri
Book ReviewsLabourSupply Chain

Luxury? The original gig economy

June 16, 2020
Let’s put the conclusion at the beginning: This book is a must read, for those that intend to ‘go into luxury’, fashion, or any other creative industry. But also for all those that are of the opinion that the ‘Gig Economy’ only came into being with companies like Uber, AirBnb, Just Eat and the like. In fact, luxury – and linked to it – the creative arts have been pioneering the Gig Business Model for many decades already.
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Always Room to Grow
Biz StrategyGovernance

Have you Done the Math? Or: Growth – the Elephant in the Boardroom

June 9, 2020
We need new business models that are not predicated on selling more stuff to more people. And because in the 'Here and Now', there is truly not much more to say, I could finish with the above quote. Except that: Those ‘new business models’ are not reality. Far from it. About the Role of the Board in the 'Why'.
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Ethics and Leadership
GovernanceOpinions

Whose call is it anyway? Leading by Example – A value, ethics and accountability challenge

June 2, 2020
Decisions in companies, brands, and businesses are never based either on a single argument, or the consequence of a single person’s ‘way’. Rather, companies have, to an extent, their own personality. Key Question: a decision taken by this organisation – is it largely independent from, or a necessary consequence of, the decision(s) that the individuals within the organisation have taken?
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Business not as usual
Governance

The ‘unusual’ in the ‘business as usual’

May 26, 2020
The more time I spend ‘doing sustainability’, i.e. being involved both as a professional as well as as an individual in cajoling, motivating, convincing and helping companies – and the individuals therein - to become ‘better citizens’, the more I realised that … actually, in would not be that hard to do better. Or let me reformulate more accurately: it is equally hard as many other things in businesses.
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GoNoGo
GlobalisationGovernanceOpinions

The New What?! Or: From No Gos to To Gos

May 19, 2020
The “new normal’ everyone talks about. What is it supposed to look like? As with many things: being clear about what you do NOT want is easy to describe. Explain and outline what it is that you really (really!) want, is considerably harder. Here a try – my try - at exactly that.
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Sustain What
Book ReviewsOpinions

Sustain What? The Global Pandemic and Resistant Economies

May 12, 2020
Few economists have truly the track record to justify themselves talking about systemic issues, impacts and outlooks - other than in blatantly generic truths. In his series 'Sustain What' - intermittently focused on the topic of the systemic aspects of Corona/Covid19 - renowned journalist Andrew Revkin has sought out a range of experts.
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Pledge
Consumer-ismOpinions

What ‘New Normal’? A personal pledge with and for ‘tiny’ actions

May 5, 2020
We have a choice. We have a choice to define, to embody, to live, how we want the ‘new normal’ to be. Because, far from perfectionism, doing, being and actioning is what makes a difference. This is why, I herewith propose a ‘Pledge of tiny actions’.
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Hulling's Adaptive Cycle
Biz StrategyCircularityGlobalisation

Global pandemic and resistant economies: The time is now

April 28, 2020
As I write this, it is late April. And our lessons from the last few weeks in Corona lock down and the impact of the pandemic on our communities and societies, all over the world, have thrown an even harsher light onto some of the realities we either assumed as a given, or worked hard to change for years already. And the lessons have been truly tough medicine.
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We have the choice
GlobalisationGovernanceOpinions

We have the choice: The future is ours – to define, to demand, to make it happen

April 21, 2020
The world ‘at the other end’ of the Corona tunnel could never be the same as before. It could be so much better than ever – with a real opportunity to put it on the rails that will make it the place we desire it to be. Or: it could be same, but indeed worse place then ever. Where past misbehaviours is ignored at best, OK’ed at worse.
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Doughnut Economics Title Page
Book ReviewsDefinitions

The Power of 7: Seven Episodes of Old vs New Economics

April 21, 2020
Doughnut Economics = An economic system that respects the planetary boundaries as well as the societal attributes of welfare. To create an economic system that works for the humans and the environment around us.
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Italy sings and applauds during Corona lock down
GlobalisationGovernanceOpinions

The Post Corona World – A Backwards Corona Forecast

April 14, 2020
When will Corona 'be over'? never. There are historical moments when the future changes direction. We call them bifurcations. Or deep crises. These times are now. Matthias Horx discusses what that means concretely.
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EU Parliament
Biz StrategyGlobalisationGovernanceOpinions

Deep Policy Responses: Could it happen again?

April 7, 2020
It is end of March / early April 2020 as I write this. Corona (Covid19) increases its grip onto the world. Draconian, tough policy measures are being put in place limiting people's lives ... and rattling the global economy. Could it hall happen again in the future? And if so - in what way?
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