As I argued before (read this blog post on the halo effect), we like simple stories that account for a company’s success or failure. These stories are almost always delusional. So, what should you keep in mind when you pick up the latest best-selling business book written by a famous CEO or management thinker? The …
Finally, this last year, long overdue, I picked up Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow (2011). And what a book it is. If you still thought you were a rational human being, deliberately making judgements, weighing pros and cons for every decision you make, consider this quote from Thinking Fast and Slow: (..) emotion now …
Holiday Reading List 2018 – The Rationalist Delusion Read More »
Introduction to the Anthropocene In a wonderful new book, professors Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin at London University College, make a convincing case that the Earth has entered the Anthropocene (combining the Greek words for ‘human’ and ‘recent’). Humans have literally become a force of nature. Meaning that human activity changes the Earth from one …
The Anthropocene – 3 Reasons Why It Matters to Your Business Read More »
Everybody, in profit and not-for-profit organizations, will know by now how to run a scrum project or set up agile teams. The topic I try to explore here is more far-reaching: are there any good ideas out there on how to build your entire organizational structure to accommodate agile working? I use concepts developed by …
How to Structure Agile Companies. A Developing Story. Read More »
The second installment in an effort to distill relevant ESG-topics from The Economist has notable differences from the first effort (see here). Digging through the second series of four months of articles (May to August), I found that: climate change remains the number one topic; green technology is in firm second place; governance more or …
ESG-Disclosure Using The Economist as a Proxy (2) Read More »
We wrote about integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG-) risks into your overall risk management framework before, see blog post Feb2018. This short video shows you why this is so important to businesses nowadays: The Reporting Exchange (an exhaustive source of information for anyone preparing sustainability reports) and COSO (organization that supplies risk management models …
Embedding ESG-risk into Your Risk Management Framework (COSO) Read More »
The last two years I started the introduction to the summer reading list with the same quote (read all my blog post on reading via this link). For a different reason, I repeat it one more time: . . . the worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is …
Summer Reading 2018: Time for Reflection and Re-Creation Read More »
Curbing climate change is arguably the most important non-financial topic your firm should be reporting efforts on; read here why (January 2018 post) and how (February 2018 post). To push yourself to become familiar with the numbers for climate change, internalize the range where the world enters a zone of uncertainty, see the table below …
Track the Most Important Planetary Boundary Yourself Read More »
Digging through the first four months of The Economist for relevant ESG-articles, I thought it would be nice to group the articles and see which groups get the most coverage in this highly regarded newspaper. My effort in the form of a Materiality Matrix is shown above, with the number of articles per topic on …
Which ESG-Topics Should You Disclose Using The Economist as a Proxy? Read More »
There’s a lot of good knowledge packed into the SDG Academy’s Climate Change course. You learn about the science behind climate change, what the Paris Agreement entails, and which multi-stakeholder initiatives try to combat climate change. The one thing that was maybe lacking was a chapter on how climate change poses threats to individual businesses; …
The Most Surprising Thing I Learned from Finishing a Climate Change Course Read More »
