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“ Failure is simply the
opportunity to begin again,
this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford

How do you explain the complexity of
an organisation’s sustainability journey?

“ Reducing unsustainability
will not create sustainability.”
John R. Ehrenfeld

“ If you’re not failing every now
and again, it’s a sign you’re not
doing anything very innovative.”
Woody Allen

“ Yours is the last generation that
will be afforded the opportunity
to stabilize life as we know it.”
Zen Makuch

How do you bring sustainability
best-practice to life?

“ People who say it cannot be
done should not interrupt those
who are doing it.”
Bernard Shaw

“ No one has the answer to the question of how 6 (soon
to be 8 or 9) billion people can live together sustainably.
But an ultimate solution is exactly what is not needed.
No one had a plan for the Industrial Revolution.
No ministry was put in charge. No single business
led the way. Instead, countless acts of initiative and
daring created a critical mass of unstoppable changes.
The Industrial Age was not planned but innovated.
The next age will be no different. ”
Peter Senge

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How do you give sustainability practitioners
the tools they need to be effective?

Kumara has six heads because he
was nursed by the karttikas – six
women who, as stars, comprise
the Pleiades. The six heads also
represent the six senses (including
extrasensory perception).

“ Difference needs to be seen as
a source of creativity, not a reason
for destruction or polarization.”
Alfonso Montuori

“ Take the opportunities afforded
to you and change the world –
no nibbling around the edges.”
Dr Mike Tennant

How do you galvanize product innovation
around future resource constraints?

“ ...there is no more strategic issue for a
company, or any organization, than its
ultimate purpose. For those who think
business exists to make a profit, I suggest
they think again. Business makes a
profit to exist. Surely it must exist for
some higher, nobler purpose than that.”
Ray Anderson

“ Teams galvanize around
a common goal.”
Annonymous

How do you explain the dimensions of
change needed for step-change innovation?

“ Enough words have been exchanged;
Now at last let me see some deeds!
...What does not happen today, will
not be done tomorrow,
And you should not let a day slip by,
Let resolution grasp what’s possible
”
and seize it boldly by the hair.
J.W. Goethe

“ Not everything important is
measured, and not everything
measurable is important.”
Eliot Einsner

How do you change mind-sets to focus
on a more sustainable future?

“ Design is a process in which new
action-producing structure are
created and substituted for old ones
such that routine acts change from
the old, effective patterns to new ones
that produce the desired outcomes. ”
John R Ehrenfeld

“ Creativity, as has been said, consists
largely of rearranging what we know in
order to find out what we do not know.
Hence, to think creatively, we must be
able to look afresh at what we normally
take for granted.”
George Kneller

“ There is no doubt that creativity is
the most important human resource
of all. Without creativity, there would
be no progress, and we would be
forever repeating the same patterns.”
Edward De Bono

“ The systems intelligence needed to deal
with the challenges we face as the
Industrial age comes to an end is collective
and must be built by working together at
many levels within and beyond organisations
in teams and networks that span industries,
communities and global supply chains. ”
Senge

“ Every act of creation is first
of all an act of destruction.”
Picasso

“ If you’re not prepared to be
wrong, you’ll never come up
with anything original.”
Sir Ken Robinson

“ We learn as we go along.”
Fourie, SABMiller

“ Failure isn’t a problem. It’s the fear
of failure that’s the limiting factor.
You can’t lose your nerve for the big
failure, because it’s the exact same
nerve you need for the big success.”
Regina Dugan, DARPA Director

“ We must do what we conceive to be the right
thing and not bother our heads or burden our
souls with whether we’re going to be successful.
Because if we don’t do the right thing, we’ll be
doing the wrong thing, and we’ll just be part of
”
the disease and not a part of the cure.
E. E. Schumacher

“ We may not be able to
predict the future but we
can help to shape it.”
Sir Ken Robinson

“ A lot of people in our industry haven’t had
very diverse experiences. So they don’t have
enough dots to connect, and they end up
with very linear solutions without a broad
perspective on the problem. The broader
one’s understanding of the human
experience, the better design we will have.”
Steve Jobs

“ Future thinking can be
very powerful as a way of
unlocking creativity .”
Sally Uren

“ Business can be a source
of progressive change.”
Ben and Jerry

“ Manage with a long rein,
allowing employees the freedom
to follow their own hunches.”
Sandra Vandermerwe & Sue Birley

“ Complex structures, and performance
management processes might mean
that we are missing a trick, or that
ideas are getting diluted as they get
put through the organisation.”
Anonymous

“ Learning from failure and
embracing failure on a small
scale is key to innovation.”
Louise Marston

When you still have all your hair
you have a “forehead.” As your
hairline recedes this becomes
a “6 head”, an “8 head” or if
completely bald, a “10 head.”

“ Many individuals are doing what
they can. But real success can
only come if there is a change in
our societies and in our economics
and in our politics.”
David Attenborough

“ I haven’t failed – I’ve just found
10,000 ways that don’t work.”
Thomas Edison

“ There is one and only one social
responsibility of business – to use its
resources and engage in activities
designed to increase its profits.”
Friedman

“ Sustainability is the mother
of all collaboration.”
Miriam Turner

“ Businesses innovate or they
fail to survive. What will differ
for life beyond the Industrial
Age Bubble will be what inspires
the innovation.”
Peter Senge

“ There is no such thing as
radical innovation.”
Mike Tennant

“ Firms still focus more on reducing
unsustainable firm-level behaviour
than on increasing the sustainability
of the system via radical change
across actors and levels. ”
Loorbach et al.

“ If you want to build a ship, don’t
drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn for
the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same
level of thinking we were at when
we created them.”
Albert Einstein

“ Man talks of a battle with
Nature, forgetting that if he won
the battle, he would find himself
on the losing side.”
Fritz Schumacher

“ Once failure becomes brand
damaging, we don’t have
permission to fail… you risk
damaging something that
people identify with.”
Anonymous

“ The issues are huge. Any single
project will not be enough.
We need larger scale projects
and an integrated view.”
Coca-Cola

“ Innovation is anything,
but business as usual. ”
Anonymous

Scylla was a supernatural creature,
with 12 feet and six heads on long,
snaky necks, each head having a
triple row of sharklike teeth.
Being caught between the Scylla and Charybdis means
to be caught in a situation that is extremely challenging.
There is no good way to get through the situation, and
any choice one makes will engender losses.

“ We must break free of
established mental models and
the arbitrary boundaries on
thinking assumptions impose.”
Peter Senge

“ The reasonable man adapts himself
to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world
to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw

“ For many companies, talking
about failure is seen as revealing
weakness and a threat to their
valuable image of success.”
Anonymous

“ If at first the idea is not
absurd, then there will be
no hope for it.”
A. Einstein

“ With incentives, people become
experts at the system and the
process and not at the core
function they are supposed to
be delivering.”
Anonymous

“ Innovation is 5% inspiration
and 95% perspiration.”
Birkinshaw et al

Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis (born
December 14, 1970 in George-
town, Guyana) is a professional
boxer in the Light Middleweight.

“ The organism that destroys
its environment destroys itself.”
Bateson

“ It’s fine to celebrate success but
it is more important to heed the
lessons of failure.”
Bill Gates

“ In a world where organisations and individuals
have access to the same information flows and
data, the advantage will favour those who
realize incremental innovation is not enough;
that the cultivation and development of creative
behaviours is the key to success in a competitive
environment. ”
Dan Pink

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