Rethinking the way we think.
People, Planet, Profit.
Truly sustainable business strategies require an expanded definition of stakeholders,
starting with planet Earth, home for all.
I position my thinking as Sustainable Bottom Line,
which represents the fusion of traditional bizschool teaching
that we must find Sustainable Competitive Advantage
(never mind the ultimate fate of most of those paragons of success heralded in "Good to Great")
with Triple Bottom Line thinking.
The Triple Bottom Line measures
the 3 Ps: People, Planet, Profit -
not only financial impacts of business activity,
but also social and environmental impacts.
Truly sustainable business strategies require an expanded definition of stakeholders,
starting with planet Earth, home for all.
I position my thinking as Sustainable Bottom Line,
which represents the fusion of traditional bizschool teaching
that we must find Sustainable Competitive Advantage
(never mind the ultimate fate of most of those paragons of success heralded in "Good to Great")
with Triple Bottom Line thinking.
The Triple Bottom Line measures
the 3 Ps: People, Planet, Profit -
not only financial impacts of business activity,
but also social and environmental impacts.
Thanks for stopping by.
The Cabin. Winter 1980
A US citizen, I credit my unusual life perspective, first and foremost, to my "back-to-the-land" upbringing in the Adirondack mountains - where "us kids" helped in every aspect of homestead life, from peeling logs to milking goats. We used kerosene lamps and did not have an indoor toilet, although we did (over time) evolve to cold AND HOT running water thanks to the ingenuity of my Pa...who, together with Ma, still lives in a (different) self-built log cabin, where he continues to tinker, add additions, and invent amazing solutions for a variety of challenges that require a Da Vinci-like breadth and depth of knowledge, not to mention the firm support of my soy-milk making, bread-baking mom, who takes care of important things like time and is a wonderful teacher.
Fast forward to 1994, when I graduated magna cum laude from "If-You-Want-To-Succeed, Go-To Wellesley College." I was a political science major with a minor in English but the realization that the world did not need another lawyer, and the idea of further indebtedness, put off the law school application and then...
...in 1996, I moved to Germany. There, I began a career that has involved in bringing emerging technologies into the European market through channel and direct sales models, with a focus on the capture/input and storage/data lifecycle management, and h unavoidable heavy exposure to the associated processes and systems implicated in this framework, e.g. ECM, ERP, BPM, BI and "high-end" kit (as the Brits like to say) like SANs and triple digit price tag BIG scanners.
The most fun I've had in my worklife was when I was able to focus on business processes and deeply understanding the solution ecosystem from the perspective of all stakeholders. Finding the win-win in a complementary vendor relationship or working together with a prospective customer to jointly validate solution value...situations where everyone comes out a winner.
The least fun for me is dealing with boring repetitive tasks, like a manual respacing job just made necessary by a cut and paste from one text box here in Weebly to another. Shameful!
During my business development years, I attended company sponsored Harvard Business School executive
education modules, and was trained in various solution selling approaches including the Bosworth solution selling methodology, (with all 4 Bosworth brothers!).
In June 2010, I earned a certificate in Sustainable Business through a highly-recommended online program offered by the University of Southern Maine.
A technology-focused futurist, I believe in practical solutions for a sustainable planet: it will take time to shift business culture from "Good to Great" to the fusion of ideas we see emerging from such disparate sources as Deloitte's Center for the Edge, the Renaiassance2 Foundation and Davos (watch this pre-event press conference - notable quotes: "we are in the midst of a great transformation" and "the old model is capitalism, the new model will be talentism", as well as "we are desperately seeking solutions", in a time when the Tipping Point's been scientifically verified to be 10% by RPI researchers.
So, we are way past the Tipping Point now...but lacking in global cohesiveness. In terms of "western" human capital, we have less than optimal worker productivity (see the fore-mentioned Shift Index) by virtue of the lack of passion engendered by the way we do our work, not to mention massive unemployment, especially amongst the youth. Everyone one of us is talented in our own special way. Most of us have a smartphone or two, a laptop...
Some heavy tweaking that put human well being and motivation at the heart of the matter and much goodwill and innovating thinking is there for the harnessing!
A big believer in dialectic principles of discourse and change, I welcome provocative dialogue and learning through conversations.
Here is my current reading list.
Fast forward to 1994, when I graduated magna cum laude from "If-You-Want-To-Succeed, Go-To Wellesley College." I was a political science major with a minor in English but the realization that the world did not need another lawyer, and the idea of further indebtedness, put off the law school application and then...
...in 1996, I moved to Germany. There, I began a career that has involved in bringing emerging technologies into the European market through channel and direct sales models, with a focus on the capture/input and storage/data lifecycle management, and h unavoidable heavy exposure to the associated processes and systems implicated in this framework, e.g. ECM, ERP, BPM, BI and "high-end" kit (as the Brits like to say) like SANs and triple digit price tag BIG scanners.
The most fun I've had in my worklife was when I was able to focus on business processes and deeply understanding the solution ecosystem from the perspective of all stakeholders. Finding the win-win in a complementary vendor relationship or working together with a prospective customer to jointly validate solution value...situations where everyone comes out a winner.
The least fun for me is dealing with boring repetitive tasks, like a manual respacing job just made necessary by a cut and paste from one text box here in Weebly to another. Shameful!
During my business development years, I attended company sponsored Harvard Business School executive
education modules, and was trained in various solution selling approaches including the Bosworth solution selling methodology, (with all 4 Bosworth brothers!).
In June 2010, I earned a certificate in Sustainable Business through a highly-recommended online program offered by the University of Southern Maine.
A technology-focused futurist, I believe in practical solutions for a sustainable planet: it will take time to shift business culture from "Good to Great" to the fusion of ideas we see emerging from such disparate sources as Deloitte's Center for the Edge, the Renaiassance2 Foundation and Davos (watch this pre-event press conference - notable quotes: "we are in the midst of a great transformation" and "the old model is capitalism, the new model will be talentism", as well as "we are desperately seeking solutions", in a time when the Tipping Point's been scientifically verified to be 10% by RPI researchers.
So, we are way past the Tipping Point now...but lacking in global cohesiveness. In terms of "western" human capital, we have less than optimal worker productivity (see the fore-mentioned Shift Index) by virtue of the lack of passion engendered by the way we do our work, not to mention massive unemployment, especially amongst the youth. Everyone one of us is talented in our own special way. Most of us have a smartphone or two, a laptop...
Some heavy tweaking that put human well being and motivation at the heart of the matter and much goodwill and innovating thinking is there for the harnessing!
A big believer in dialectic principles of discourse and change, I welcome provocative dialogue and learning through conversations.
Here is my current reading list.