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“ Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ”

Henry Ford

How do you explain the complexity of an organisation’s sustainability journey?

“ Reducing unsustainability will not create sustainability. ”

John R. Ehrenfeld

“ If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. ”

Woody Allen

“ Yours is the last generation that will be afforded the opportunity to stabilize life as we know it. ”

Zen Makuch

How do you bring sustainabilitybest-practice to life?

“ People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

Bernard Shaw

“ No one has the answer to the question of how 6 (soon to be 8 or 9) billion people can live together sustainably. But an ultimate solution is exactly what is not needed. No one had a plan for the Industrial Revolution. No ministry was put in charge. No single business led the way. Instead, countless acts of initiative and daring created a critical mass of unstoppable changes. The Industrial Age was not planned but innovated. The next age will be no different. ”

Peter Senge

How do you give sustainability practitioners the tools they need to be effective?

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Kumara has six heads because he was nursed by the karttikas – six women who, as stars, comprise the Pleiades. The six heads also represent the six senses (including extrasensory perception).

“ Difference needs to be seen as a source of creativity, not a reason for destruction or polarization. ”

Alfonso Montuori

“ Take the opportunities afforded to you and change the world – no nibbling around the edges. ”

Dr Mike Tennant

How do you galvanize product innovation around future resource constraints?

“ ...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that. ”

Ray Anderson

“ Teams galvanize around a common goal. ”

Annonymous

How do you explain the dimensions of change needed for step-change innovation?

“ Enough words have been exchanged; Now at last let me see some deeds!

...What does not happen today, will not be done tomorrow, And you should not let a day slip by, Let resolution grasp what’s possible and seize it boldly by the hair.”

J.W. Goethe

“ Not everything important is measured, and not everything measurable is important. ”

Eliot Einsner

How do you change mind-sets to focus on a more sustainable future?

“ Design is a process in which new action-producing structure are created and substituted for old ones such that routine acts change from the old, effective patterns to new ones that produce the desired outcomes. ”

John R Ehrenfeld

“ Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. ”

George Kneller

“ There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. ”

Edward De Bono

“ The systems intelligence needed to deal with the challenges we face as the Industrial age comes to an end is collective and must be built by working together at many levels within and beyond organisations in teams and networks that span industries, communities and global supply chains. ”

Senge

“ Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ”

Picasso

“ If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. ”

Sir Ken Robinson

“ We learn as we go along. ” Fourie, SABMiller

“ Failure isn’t a problem. It’s the fear of failure that’s the limiting factor. You can’t lose your nerve for the big failure, because it’s the exact same nerve you need for the big success. ”

Regina Dugan, DARPA Director

“ We must do what we conceive to be the right

thing and not bother our heads or burden our

souls with whether we’re going to be successful.

Because if we don’t do the right thing, we’ll be

doing the wrong thing, and we’ll just be part of

the disease and not a part of the cure.” E. E. Schumacher

“ We may not be able to predict the future but we can help to shape it. ”

Sir Ken Robinson


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“ A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. ”

Steve Jobs

“ Future thinking can be very powerful as a way of unlocking creativity .”

Sally Uren

“ Business can be a source of progressive change. ”

Ben and Jerry

“ Manage with a long rein, allowing employees the freedom to follow their own hunches. ”

Sandra Vandermerwe & Sue Birley

“ Complex structures, and performance management processes might mean that we are missing a trick, or that ideas are getting diluted as they get put through the organisation. ”

Anonymous

“ Learning from failure and embracing failure on a small scale is key to innovation. ”

Louise Marston

When you still have all your hair you have a “forehead.” As your hairline recedes this becomes a “6 head”, an “8 head” or if completely bald, a “10 head.”

“ Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. ”

David Attenborough

“ I haven’t failed – I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work. ”

Thomas Edison

“ There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits. ”

Friedman

“ Sustainability is the mother of all collaboration. ”

Miriam Turner

How do you change mind-sets to focus on a more sustainable future?

“ Businesses innovate or they fail to survive. What will differ for life beyond the Industrial Age Bubble will be what inspires the innovation. ”

Peter Senge

“ There is no such thing as radical innovation. ”

Mike Tennant

“ Firms still focus more on reducing unsustainable firm-level behaviour than on increasing the sustainability of the system via radical change across actors and levels. ”

Loorbach et al.

“ If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. ”

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ”

Albert Einstein

“ Man talks of a battle with Nature, forgetting that if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side. ”

Fritz Schumacher

“ Once failure becomes brand damaging, we don’t have permission to fail… you risk damaging something that people identify with. ”

Anonymous

“ The issues are huge. Any single project will not be enough. We need larger scale projects and an integrated view. ”

Coca-Cola

“ Innovation is anything, but business as usual. ”

Anonymous

Scylla was a supernatural creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long, snaky necks, each head having a triple row of sharklike teeth.

Being caught between the Scylla and Charybdis means to be caught in a situation that is extremely challenging.

There is no good way to get through the situation, and any choice one makes will engender losses.

“ We must break free of established mental models and the arbitrary boundaries on thinking assumptions impose. ”

Peter Senge

“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”

George Bernard Shaw


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“ For many companies, talking about failure is seen as revealing weakness and a threat to their valuable image of success. ”

Anonymous

“ If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it. ”

A. Einstein

“ With incentives, people become experts at the system and the process and not at the core function they are supposed to be delivering. ”

Anonymous

“ Innovation is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. ”

Birkinshaw et al

Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis (born December 14, 1970 in George-town, Guyana) is a professional boxer in the Light Middleweight.

“ The organism that destroys its environment destroys itself. ”

Bateson

“ It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ”

Bill Gates

“ In a world where organisations and individuals have access to the same information flows and data, the advantage will favour those who realize incremental innovation is not enough; that the cultivation and development of creative behaviours is the key to success in a competitive environment. ”

Dan Pink

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