the future of strategy - a sociological and narrative turn
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This is a presentation made to an economics unit outlining how strategy has and is changing its conceptual base and in so doing becoming more human centric in its conceptualisation. In so doing it is allowing business to become more progressiveTRANSCRIPT
Exploring Strategy…Some Ideas
Responsible Leadership, Sustainable Business Practices, Global Orientation
Nick Barter – MBA & Asia-Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
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Some Fundamentals….
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http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/living_planet_report_graphics/footprint_interactive/
We are going to have to take
over as managers of
that which we took for granted
Some Fundamentals….
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Econ.
Society
EnvironmentLinear, Simple,
Teachable, Revenue>Costs
Strategy = Money
During this time
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Balance….Environment Social
Economic
What gets measured gets done….moving but missing the
point….
Mutual embedding may be “so obvious…all human organisationsare embedded within the natural environment and all of those which have human managers and other employees, also contain the natural environment in their respective biophysical bodies” (Starik& Kanashiro, 2013, p.8/9)
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Human Centric, Anthropological, Narrative Driven
Environment
Social
Economic
Ontologically Consistent
Future Strategy is about us….
• Human first – homo sapiens…..
• Narrative Driven
Always was – but focused on wrong thing…putting money first and forgetting exchange is conducted between people
Four truths to the storyteller…. (Guber 2007- http://hbr.org/2007/12/the-four-truths-of-the-storyteller/es)
1. True to the Teller2. True to the Audience3. True to the Time4. True to the Mission
• And because of the situation we are in…and because we all a conflation
Closed Loop, Service Based, Wellbeing driven….