Business Sustainability: What can we learn from Nature?
by: Tony Czarnecki
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The economic, and especially financial sector, crises like the current one, or the one in 2000 point to the need of some fundamental changes in managing business in the globalized economy. It is in the interest of most societies to avoid exponentially growing costs of coming out of each such crisis. The number of defaulting companies may not be significant. However, the size of these organisations, such as WorldCom in 2001 or Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers in 2008 can be truly enormous. The main reason behind these crises is the short-termism, which stretches the ever-wider gap between the real economy and the financial instruments that support it. We need a new model of business growth. The most important change that seems to be required is to make a gradual transition from a short-term to a longer-term, more sustainable growth. We can adopt some principles for long-term business survival from Nature.
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Author Details:
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Tony Czarnecki
Managing Partner and Founder
Sustensis Ltd
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