The RSA
Streamed live on Jun 26, 2014
Organisational change expert Professor Lynda Gratton shows that it is now critical that corporations step up to play their role in the world by building inner resilience, actively anchoring themselves in their communities and supply chains, and leveraging their unique capabilities to address complex global challenges.
Notice the “show stopper” questions when it comes to climate change issues.
Business leaders like Professor Lynda Gratton may feel that business and corporations can help in a variety of ways in our current circumstance, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that business thinking is simply not capable of addressing the most fundamental crisis facing humankind. Indeed, its efforts to become more efficient may effectively be hastening — while all the same, making more “efficient” — our collapse as a civilization and perhaps our demise as a species. Even the best of the business thinkers like Lynda Gratton, are, in effect, speechless and dumbfounded when it comes to climate change. All they can manage to do is say “yes, it is a hugh problem.” The reason for their embarrassing stammering on this issues is that the tragedy we face as a human community calls into question the fundamental logic and future trajectory of growth economics upon which Professor Lynda Gratton – and virtually all other business spokespersons and ideologues — have based their entire careers. They seem incapable of understanding that sustainability in a finite ecosystem must be based on stead-state economics and models of homeostasis — not the illusions of continuous growth.
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
