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Matt Polsky

Matt Polsky

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What Mandela's Life Story, Another Mixed-Bag UN Conference, & the GNP Critique Offer Your Business
What Mandela's Life Story, Another Mixed-Bag UN Conference, & the GNP Critique Offer Your Business

New Metrics / In eight earlier parts of this series, we discussed 18 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field. (Find the first 7 articles here and the last one here.)Two recent events — the passing of Nelson Mandela and the COP talks in Warsaw — and the re-occurrence of a familiar critique about GNP accounting give us new insights on the place of metrics in making change, and potential lessons for sustainable business. - 10 years ago

The Uncountable and Sustainable Business Metrics: Can There Be a Productive Relationship?
The Uncountable and Sustainable Business Metrics: Can There Be a Productive Relationship?

New Metrics / In seven earlier parts of this series, we've discussed 17 pitfalls in the sustainability metrics field. We told sometimes painful stories from several fields outside of business with experience measuring things, such as education and criminal justice, and we discussed easy-to-miss things such as confirmation bias, mistakenly measuring the wrong thing, and failing to acknowledge complexity. - 10 years ago

New Era: Can Profit-Seeking Approaches Protect Natural Capital?
New Era: Can Profit-Seeking Approaches Protect Natural Capital?

Collaboration / Mark Tercek of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has written a new book with Jonathan Adams, Nature's Fortune: How Business & Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. A video interview of him at an Aspen Institute forum last month at Hunter College, “The Case for a Profit Motive in Conserving the Environment,” with New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin showed that his theme and approach have a lot going for them. - 10 years ago