12. There are
Approximately
125,000,000
businesses
in the world*
Can we inspire billions of
people to support
business for good?
To see a viable alternative
To align their purchases, investments, and
employment decisions with their values
To learn how to use business
as a force for good
*Deloitte Millennial Survey 2016
87%
of millennials believe
that the success of
a business is about
more than financial
performance
23. “You never change things by fighting the existing
reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete.”
R Buckminster Fuller
Coasteering, St.Davids
Working in dangerous times or places depends on good risk management. That risk management depends on good awareness of what’s going on around us. That’s as true on the ocean as it is on the land.
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With visible leadership and effective tools in place, the next challenge is in accelerating this culture shift is to inspire millions (billions?!?) of people to support businesses that are a force for good.
We developed the R10 framework to help reflect on the different aspects of quality and outcome that result from different point, that depend on whether our focus is on what the rules require us to do, or what reality invites us to respond to.
Scaling what results and performance look like on a nominal 1-10 scale, we can plot sustainability and social justice activity according to whether it’s focused predominantly on just compliance – the ‘Rules’ on the left of the frame, or on responding to what’s actually happening, and predicted to happen in the world – the ‘reality’ of the right side. Most government and public sector departments that we’ve talked to place themselves firmly in the bottom left – focus is on ticking the box and incremental change, resulting in ‘proof of progress’ that can stem the criticism of any challengers, whilst avoiding the discomfort and uncertainty of asking for bigger change.
Even 10/10 on the ‘rules’ side guarantees nothing more than successfully reaching goals that were never intended to deliver resilience or social justice in the first place. It’s perfectly legal to buy products that can’t be recycled from people with zero social, energy or environmental policy. At the other side of the scale, bottom right, is where you’ll find many community organisations, NGOs and activists – who do understand what needs to change, but lack the know-how to get it happening at speed or scale. Top right is R10, where responding to reality meets 10/10 performance. Standing here, ask yourself what ‘awesome’ would look like for the project that you’re working on
M&S Plan A 2025 https://corporate.marksandspencer.com/documents/plan-a/plan-a-2025-commitments.pdf
“‘ensure 100% of our products address 100% of their material social and environmental impacts’
We took the inspiration for our project, TYF, from the nature and landscape of of west wales – a journey of exploration, adventure and learning.