by Bob Leonard and David Ross In our last post, we discussed the coming reboot businesses will undergo post-COVID, and the need to do so in a way that prepares for a VUCA world… a world that is increasingly Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. It’s an opportunity to prepare to meet the challenges of […]
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by Bob Leonard and David Ross Post COVID-19, businesses must reboot, and that presents a golden opportunity to position for success and prepare for the mother of all crises already on our doorstep – our climate crisis. The world is never going to be the same as it was. Welcome to a VUCA world, […]
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by Bob Leonard Someone asked me if our current pause in economic activity, resulting in a contraction of GDP growth, is like the Finite Earth Economy (FEE). No, it is definitely not. If it were, you could answer these questions with a “Yes”: Is it part of a plan to achieve a […]
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by Bob Leonard We did it to replace an in-person event where I was going to present Moving to a Finite Earth Economy and do a book signing. Of course, it was cancelled. So we planned a Zoom event. Until then, we had only used Zoom for meetings with a specific, small group of […]
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by Bob Leonard Our current form of capitalism is a dead man walking. It will die for a number of reasons. A capitalist economic system is not inherently good or bad. It has a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quality. There’s no better system for catalyzing innovation. But, when manipulated to rig the system, […]
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by Bob Leonard I think so. Look how quickly society has changed over the last two weeks. What would it look like if the world responded to our climate crisis with a similar sense of urgency? We have a big problem – and it’s not the pandemic or our climate crisis. Those are […]
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by Bob Leonard and David Houle The major problems we face today are global in scope: our climate crisis, wealth inequality, immigration, over population, access to clean air and clean water. While nation states may always exist, they cannot successfully face these global issues alone. The only entity that operates inside and outside […]
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by David Houle Last week I wrote about the climate change conference that The Sarasota Institute – A 21st Century Think Tank was presenting. Called “A Leap Year Look at Climate Change” it was unique in the sense that in the morning was the 2020 updated reality of what the climate crisis now looks like. […]
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by Bob Leonard Population and our climate crisis are directly linked. Every additional person increases carbon emissions (the rich more than the poor) and increases the number of climate change victims (the poor more than the rich). Currently the net daily increase in human population, after subtracting deaths from births, is 220,000 people, […]
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