Date: 2025-03-11 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00019228
Event: ... July 21st 2020 ... 1:00 pm EDT SDGs
Chat from the webinar ... SDG Ambition: Scaling Business Impact for the Decade of Action
Peter Burgess
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| Event ... July 21st 2020 ... 1:00 pm EDT SDGs SDG Ambition: Scaling Business Impact for the Decade of Action Q1 I am an 80 year old. Did not get the text from this question ............. Q2 I have been interested in MANAGEMENT for all my adult life. There has been amazing management to maximize profit but the management methods for social impact and environmental impact are still in the stone age. How can this be changed using the technology we now have? Peter Burgess http://truevaluemetrics.org Q3 If we take the 100 largest business entities ... how unsustainable are they ? What are the 100 worst companies? What are the 100 best companies ................ Q4 Goals are good ... but results are what matters. Results come from the right sort of management metrics, and I am not sure these are easily accessible ... maybe this is the goal here, but not so sure. Q5 And if you are not part of the Global Compact? Q6 Who really matters? Is it the investor looking for profit, or the customer looking for a responsible product, or people who work for a living and have watched their earnings go nowhere for 40 years while profits have increased maybe by 500%. This is catastrophic dysfunction of the socio-envir-economic system. Q7 It is 20 years since the MDGs ... only 5 years for the SDGs ... and in the end GOALS are only a talking point with very little management of socio-enviro-economic progress and performance not only for the company (and investors) but also from the perspective of people, and place, and products Q8 How is this going to change ExxonMobil? Q9 So ... how many Paul Polman's in the world of business? Thank you. I enjoyed what you had to say about technology and its use to manage business performance. I tried to engage with SAP many years ago because it had become apparent to me that we were doing an amazing job improving profit performance, but the impact on society and nature was catastrophic. | |||||||||