Following yesterday’s post on the MD of Accenture’s statement of the urgent need to reduce carbon intensity and the need for systems thinking to achieve this, it seems appropriate to ask ourselves “What would it take to create a sustainable system, for business and the economy?” The first step to that is having a life-supporting …
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A very interesting interview here with Peter Lacey, Managing Director (Asia Pacific) at Accenture Consulting Services. We particularly notice two things that he says: First, carbon reduction in every product and service in the world needs to be of the order of seven to eight times what it is today. That means that for in …
The future is going to be more complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable. There are two ways of handling this. The first is to centralise: to bring all the relevant information to one central leader, so that she can take decisions. The other is to decentralise: to make everyone a leader; give everyone in the organisation the same …
Even ‘The Economist’ is saying it: “America’s income inequality is growing again. Time to cut subsidies to the rich and invest in the young.” “Although some degree of inequality is good for an economy, …the recent concentration of income gains among the most affluent is both politically dangerous and economically damaging. (The implicit subsidy provided …