by Simon | Mar 17, 2016 | Business
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Some things just are: Too much carbon. The need for fast change. Low carbon...
by Simon | Mar 9, 2016 | Business
Sometimes, frequently we can’t ‘solve’ a problem without creating another one. Often we need to manage this, manage polarities, rather than trying to create a singular focused outcome. Nature and nurture is a classic example. Freedom...
by Simon | Dec 14, 2015 | Business
Over more than 20 years we have been trying to put in place a meaningful climate change agreement. Extraordinarily, in Paris 196 countries just managed this. Or did they?The scale of what has been achieved is immense. For example, the Climate Institute’s CEO,...
by Simon | Mar 6, 2015 | Business
I have worked on environmental and sustainability issues for decades. It is quite confounding. So often I would encounter my own and society’s assumptions about the way the world works e.g. we make decisions based on rational economics. These are strong cultural...
by Simon | Sep 6, 2014 | Business
This is the text from my keynote, yesterday, for The University of Adelaide’s MBA opening dinner:I’m going to talk to you tonight about paradoxes – the sorts of crazy contradictions that we see all the time, and we are often unconscious to the importance...
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