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TRUE VALUE METRICS
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Numbering the Triple Bottom Line
Accounting for ALL the Capitals
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Navigation to a massive amount of information
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This page accessed: 2024-11-21
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Double Entry AccountabilityTM
for PEOPLE, PLANET and PROFIT
FACING UP TO CHRONIC UNSUSTAINABILITY
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METRICS TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
TRANSPARENCY / ACCOUNTABILITY
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WE WANT TO MAINTAIN AN OPEN KNOWLEDGE MODEL
A MODEST DONATION WOULD BE OF HUGE VALUE!
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#1
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CONTEXT
ISSUES and POSSIBILITIES
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MANY ISSUES / PROBLEMS
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INCOME INEQUALITY
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PLASTIC POLLUTION
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CONSUMPTION WASTE
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FOOD DEFORESTATION
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NO WATER DROUGHT
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FINANCIAL GREED
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MANY TERRIBLE OUTCOMES
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Poverty Starvation
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War - Physical Destruction
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War - Human Lives Lost
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Urban Decay
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Industrial Pollution
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Extreme Weather
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EXISTENTIAL RISKS
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CLIMATE CHANGE
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ECOSYSTEM FAILURE
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INEQUALITY WEALTH
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INEQUALITY POVERTY
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GLOBAL WARFARE
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BANK FAIURE
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ALL SORTS OF GOOD PEOPLE
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Nuclear Family
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Indian family South Asia
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Arab Women Middle East
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Nelson Mandella South Africa
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Paul Polman Unilever
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Bill Gates Gates Foundation
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There are many good nice people everywhere on the planet. Everyone needs to have ways to better themselves and their families. People must also take responsibility to consume more efficiently so they do less damage to the environment.
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AMAZING TECHNOLOGY
Rapid technological development over past 200 years ... and accelerating
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MEDICAL SCIENCE
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MATERIALS
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Genetic code / DNA
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Antibiotics
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3D Printing
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Composite materials
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Plastics
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High strength steels
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ELECTRONICS
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COMMUNICATIONS
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IBM
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Microsoft
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Oracle
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Apple
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Print Media
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Digital Media
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SOCIAL MEDIA
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PASSENGER TRANSPORT
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Google
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Facebook
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Twitter
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Passenger Rail
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Passenger Car
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Passenger Bus
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FREIGHT / LOGISTICS
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AEROSPACE
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Shanghai new port
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Container Ships
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Freight rail
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Jet engines
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Passenger Aircraft
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Satellites
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We should use technology to make it possible for people to have a better life. We have deployed technology to make the most financial wealth. It is time to use amazing technology to improve society and the environment and not just the profit.
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- Better metrics will help to solve these problems.
- There is no one slver bullet that is going to solve all problems.
- Better metrics along the lines of TrueValueMetrics
- More accountability ... stronger, quicker!
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CONTEXT / ISSUES /POSSIBILITIES
SYSTEMIC FAILURES / HUNGER / POVERTY / HOPELESSNESS / DESTRUCTION
GOOD PEOPLE / AMAZING TECHNOLOGY / HUGE POSSIBILITIES
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Open L07-CONTEXT-ISSUES-POSSIBILITIES
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HOW THE WORLD WORKS
SOCIO-ENVIRO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM
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GO TOP
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The system has been managed for the benefit of those who own financial capital. The result is catastrophic inequality and unsustainable depletion of natural capital and the degradation of the environment. Better metrics like TrueValueMetrics can be a gamechanger.
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ALL THE CAPITALS ARE INVOLVED ... EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED
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SOCIAL CAPITAL
SOCIO
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NATURAL CAPITAL
ENVIRO
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ECONOMIC CAPITAL
ECONOMIC
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Social and economic progress has been achieved over the past 200+ years by expoiting natural capital. All value originates with nature and everything depends on nature. This is unsustainable, but technological innovation can (must) change things for the better.
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MONEY ... WRONG GOAL, WRONG METRIC, WRONG RESULT
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MONEY
LOSING VALUE
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GDP SIZE
HUGE GROWTH
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INTANGIBLES
SMALL REAL VALUE
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Money is the dominant measure ... but has been gamed for decades. It does not stand for anything and totally depends on 'trust' ... whatever that is.
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SOCIAL CAPITAL ... THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE FAMILY
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STATE
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CONSUME
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CONTRIBUTE
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People live their lives ... they make decision and consume to support quality of life ... and they contribute in many different ways
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SOCIAL CAPITAL ... PEOPLE ENGAGE IN MANY WAYS
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as INDIVIDUALS
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in COMPANIES
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in GOVERNMENT
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PEOPLE are the ACTORS ... either on their own or within ORGANIZATIONS. It is people that make decisions and they have to be held accountable for the decisions they are making.
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ECONOMIC CAPITAL ... PROFIT and PAYROLL
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PROFITS
PROFITS
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EXECUTIVES
HUGE GAINS
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WORKERS
FLATLINE
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Profits and stock market have increased spectacularly in the past 40 years and executive pay has increased from 50X to 500X of worker pay. Worker pay has flatlined since the 1980s while productivity and profits have increased.
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PROCESSES HAVE MULTI-CAPITAL COSTS AND PRODUCE PRODUCTS
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STEEL
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SHIPPING
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ELECTRICITY
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Process improvement has been impressive for decades. Labor productivity is up substantially, but many processes are energy intensive and environmentally unsustainable.
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PRODUCTS HAVE IMPACT AT ALL STAGES OF THEIR LIFE CYCLE
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CARS
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FOOD
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CLOTHES
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More products and more consumption improves quality of life up to a point. But the manufacture of products results in industrial pollution which is bad for the planet. Getting a better balance is essential.
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PLACE IS WHERE LIFE IS LIVED ... WHERE EVERTHING HAPPENS
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MAIN ST.
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SERVICES
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RECREATION
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PLACE is a key determinant of quality of life. It is where every sector delivers (or not) the goods and services need for people to have a decent quality of life.
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WASTE ... HUGE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS
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LANDFILL
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TRASH
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RECYCLE
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Waste contributes nothing to quality of life, but has social, environmental and economic costs. Reducing waste and the idea of circularity in the economy is a win-win-win and has started to grow. Much work still to do.
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BETTER METRICS NEEDED ... TRUE VALUE ENHANCED ACCOUNTANCY
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TrueValueMetrics builds on the powerful foundation of conventional financial accountancy. Accountancy's key concepts are used to account for the state, flows and impact for all activities and capitals.
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How the Socio-Enviro-Economic system works
EVERYTHING CONNECTS TO EVERYTHING ELSE
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Open L07-HOW-SEES-WORKS
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SECTOR / PROCESS / IMPACT
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SECTOR ACTIVITIES and PROCESSES have IMPACT on ALL the CAPITALS
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SOCIAL IMPACT
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
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ECONOMIC IMPACT
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There is a cost of living to support quality of life
There are contributions that people make
There is net benefit AND change to capitals (hopefully positive)
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There are storms, earthquakes and natural disasters
Ecosystem services are a source of all value
There is net benefit AND change to capitals (mostly negative)
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There are operating costs for all oconomic activities
There are benefits from economic activity
There is net benefit AND change to capitals (hopefully positive)
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PRODUCTION ... SECTORS / INDUSTRIES / PROCESSES
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MINING
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PRODUCTION
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LOGISTICS
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Every sector, every industry, has become very specialized and over a long period of time has been optimized for profit performance. In the past, too little attention has been paid to social and environmental issues, and this must change.
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FLOWS ... STREAMS / STRANDS / STRINGS
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SUPPLY CHAIN
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USE
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WASTE
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Everything that is used to support a high standard of living and quality of life has a long supply chain, then production and distribution, then use, and then a post use waste chain. For metrics to be meaningful, all of these stages must be brought into account.
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CONSUMPTION ... PROCESSES PRODUCE PRODUCTS
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FOOD
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CARS
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CLOTHES
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Products (goods and services) are some of the things that support quality of life. Without them quality of life degrades, and at the limit, people die. Products flow through the system. Design products the right way and the performance of the system can be improved enormously.
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STATE / ALL THE CAPITALS
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GO TOP
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TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ALL THE CAPITALS
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SOCIAL CAPITAL
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NATURAL CAPITAL
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ECONOMIC CAPITAL
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SOCIAL CAPITAL
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Individual
The basis for everything important ...
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Family
The family an important part of the social structure
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Community
The place factors into quality of life
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(1) HUMAN CAPITAL
(2) RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL
(3) LOCATIONAL CAPITAL
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NATURAL CAPITAL
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LAND
RESOURCES
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WATER
BIODIVERSITY
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AIR
ECOSYSTEMS
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(1) LAND
(2) WATER
(3) AIR
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(4) RESOURCES
(5) BIODIVERSITY
(6) ECOSYSTEMS
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ECONOMIC CAPITAL
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FINANCIAL
Adding to wealth is dominant goal ...
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PHYSICAL
Tangible physical structures ...
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INTANGIBLE
Important elements for quality of life ...
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(1) FINANCIAL CAPITAL
(2) PHYSICAL CAPITAL
(3) INTANGIBLE CAPITAL
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ACTORS / PEOPLE / ORGANIZATIONS
FOR DECISIONS ... RESPONSIBILITY ... ACCOUNTABILITY
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PEOPLE
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CENTER
OF
EVERYTHING
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Good people everywhere ... but too many left behind
Bad folk not held accountable ... and a root cause of inequality
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GOOD PEOPLE
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POWERFUL PEOPLE
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BAD PEOPLE
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Indian family South Asia
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Arab Women Middle East
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Bill Gates Microsoft
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Carlos Slim Grupo Carso
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Idi Amin Uganda
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Muammar Gaddafi Libya
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Huge corporate organizations and governments dominate everything
But people run these organizations and make the decisions
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Google
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ExxonMobil
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Rolls Royce
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HSBC
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Government
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Security
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- There are a majority of good people, and some very good leaders;
- Relatively few bad folk, but too many in positions of power and influence;
- Too many ultra wealthy folk who have gamed the system in ways that are often legal but still wrong;
- Most financial wealth has been extracted from society and nature in ways that cannot be sustained;
- People ... everyone ... especially powerful people, must be held accountable.
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ACTORS / PEOPLE / ORGANIZATIONS
FOR DECISIONS ... RESPONSIBILITY ... ACCOUNTABILITY
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Open L07-ACTORS-PEOPLE-ORGANIZATIONS
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PRODUCTS / STUFF / CONSUMPTION
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SUPPORT QUALITY OF LIFE / EARN PROFITS / PROVIDE JOBS
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Vegetables
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Meat
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Housing
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Clothes
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Mobility
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Recreation
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- Products are needed to enable quality of life for people
- There are essential needs, and also less important wants
- For the very rich there is a luxury sector
- But products also create environmental degradation
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PRODUCTS / STUFF / CONSUMPTION
SUPPORT QUALITY OF LIFE / EARN PROFITS / PROVIDE JOBS
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Open L07-PRODUCTS-STUFF-CONSUMPTION
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PLACE / COMMUNITIES / COUNTRIES
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Place ... Where Life is Lived
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Communities
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Cities
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Countries
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- Everything is needed in the place to enable Quality of Life
- Everything is interconnected
- Nothing important can be missing ... multi-sector is essential
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PLACE / COMMUNITIES / COUNTRIES
WHERE LIFE IS LIVED ... WHERE EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER
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Open L07-PLACE-COMMUNITIES-COUNTRIES
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PEOPLE / QUALITY OF LIFE
THE MAIN GOAL SHOULD BE BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE
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The State of Society / Social Capital
Quality of life has improved over the past 200 years ...
but still far too many people left behind, and not being addressed
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HUMAN CAPITAL
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RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL
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LOCATIONAL CAPITAL
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Young Child
The basis for everything important ...
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Grown Adult
... and enabling a positive contribution.
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Family
The family an important part of the social structure
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Community
... as well as good friends and community.
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Place
Everything comes together in a place
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Products
Goods and services accessible and affordable
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- Human Capital ... Reflecting quality of life at the individual level
- Relationship Capital ... Modified and augmented by family, friends, connections
- Locational Capital ,,, Modified also by the enabling aspects of the place
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PEOPLE / QUALITY OF LIFE
THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ALL ACTIVITY
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Open L07-PEOPLE-QUALITY-OF-LIFE
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NATURE / SOURCE OF ALL VALUE
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Natural Capital / State of the Environment
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LAND
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WATER
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AIR
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RESOURCES
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BIODIVERSITY
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ECOSYSTEMS
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- Nature is the source of ALL value
- To improve quality of life, nature has been exploited, depleted and degraded.
- Nature is rapidly degrading but ignored in conventional financial and economic analysis.
- This is NOT sustainable.
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NATURE / SOURCE OF ALL VALUE
EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON NATURE
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Open L07-NATURE-SOURCE-OF-ALL-VALUE
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ECONOMY / MONEY / LIQUIDITY
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GO TOP
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FINANCIAL CAPITAL
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PHYSICAL CAPITAL
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INTANGIBLE CAPITAL
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INVESTMENT
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BULLS
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BUILDINGS
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STEEL MFG.
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SECURITY
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CULTURE
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THE FINANCIAL ECONOMY / MONEY and LIQUIDITY
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MONEY
US$ has has massive value loss over time
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MONEY BASE
Monetary base has expanded since 2008
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STOCKS UP
Stock market has been spectacular
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MONEY DOWN
... but the buying power of the US$ is way down
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WAGES FLAT
and wages flatlining while productivity grows.
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GDP -v- GPI
While GDP is up, progress (GPI) is flat
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TRUE VALUE / DATA at the CENTER
YOU MANAGE WHAT YOU MEASURE
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Numbering the Triple Bottom Line
Accounting for ALL the Capitals
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TRANSPARENCY
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ACCOUNTABILITY
METRICS TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
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Data at the Center
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Measuring Progress
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Activities change State
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Enhanced Accountancy
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- Management is the Art of Making Changes to Achieve Improvement
- Collect and Analyze Data to Understand How Things Work
- Expand the GOOD ... Eliminate the BAD
- More and More Data and Analysis is not Better Management
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ABOUT / VISION / STRATEGY
ABOUT THE TVM INITIATIVE
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L07-SITE-NAVIGATION
COMPLETE SITE NAVIGATION (no graphics)
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Open L07-SITE-NAVIGATION
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SN-CIP ...CONTEXT / ISSUES / POSSIBILITIES
UNDERSTANDING THE STARTING POINT ... WHERE WE ARE!
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Open L070-SN-CIP
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SN-SEES ...SOCIO-ENVIRO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM
ACTIVITIES / CAPITALS / ACTORS / PLACES / PRODUCTS and more
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Open L070-SN-SEES
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SN-MA ... MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANCY
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANCY EMPOWERS BETTER MANAGEMENT
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Open L070-SN-MA
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SECTOR-VIEW
SECTORS / STREAMS / INDUSTRIES
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Open L070-SN-SECTOR-VIEW
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SN-TVM ...TRUE VALUE METRICS
ABOUT TVM, THE VISION AND THE STRATEGY
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Open L070-SN-TVM
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SN-TPB ...ABOUT PETER BURGESS
A LIFETIME OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
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Open L070-SN-TPB
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