“If you have too many useful machines, you get too many useless people.”

E.F. Schumacher

In this, the first of a five-part series, ‘As If People Matter’, covering all perspectives of a people-centred approach to sustainability in business, Michael Townsend explains how the strategy links to superior business – and economic – performance.

The bottom line for sustainability is all about people; why else are we doing all this…

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I was thinking about the scenario of the organizations, specially in Latam, few years ago, about 5 or 6 years I would say, pretty much everything was about management, the fanatical task of controlling, reduce costs, reduce the variability was the duty. The outstanding skill of an executive those days was the continuous improvement process then, the ISO certification (International Organization for Standardization). Most organizations were chasing this quality label.

Now, that I'm…

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We’re near the end of 2011, over three years since the onset of the global financial crisis. On a bad day the stock markets are in complete turmoil. On a good day, they are simply volatile. Investor confidence is low, unsurprisingly. This is not the best environment within which capitalism, business, or the transition to a green economy can easily flourish. Just look at the spate of solar companies going to the wall in the US in recent months.

There are fundamental shifts…

There is much talk of business needing to become more sustainable, in the face of an increasing number of challenges, including climate change, peak oil, new legislation, reputational risk, and increasing costs. That companies need to change is no longer the debate, but there is a need to understand (in easy terms) what businesses could be doing and how this action will deliver sustainable business success, as well as helping to save the planet.

The Global Research…