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Few Countries Manage To Be Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

“It’s imperative that experts look for ways to develop society in an ecologically sustainable manner. ” Ecological ceiling The study devised its framework by drawing upon the renowned framework of planetary boundaries and the concept of a “safe and just operating space.”

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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How Much Margin Do You Have? | Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer

The Recovering Engineer

To explain what I mean, I’ll lean on my background as an engineer. In my engineering design classes, I learned about the concept of design or safety margin — a factor built into design calculations to allow for minor errors, miscalculations, under estimations, and other variables that are difficult to accurately determine.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. It should play a central role in explaining and justifying company policy.

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The Path To EVs Might Not Be Smooth Sailing For Uber And Lyft

The Horizons Tracker

This initiative aims to address the issue of tailpipe pollution by replacing traditional internal combustion engines with electric vehicles (EVs). Uber and Lyft have recently made commitments to achieve full electrification of their vehicle fleets in the United States by 2030. Electrification is a small win for society.

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5 Ways To Keep Women In Tech

The Horizons Tracker

“Women have almost caught up to men in the fields of technology, engineering and mathematics, right? Supporting both parents to be parents – The first place to look is the maternity and paternity policies an organization has in place. It’s a problem tackled in a new report from Accenture and Girls Who Code.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. This turnaround occurred at Jacobs Suchard’s North American operation, eventually sold to Kraft/Mondelez after many years of profitable growth as a coffee specialist.