This is a presentation made to an economics unit outlining how strategy has and is changing its conceptual base and in so doing becoming more human centric in its conceptualisation. In so doing it is allowing business to become more progressive

1. Exploring Strategy…Some Ideas
Responsible Leadership, Sustainable Business Practices,
Global Orientation
Nick Barter – MBA & Asia-Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
n.barter@griffith.edu.au
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2. Some Fundamentals….
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Twice as
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(Source UN Dept of Economic & Social Affairs)
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/living_planet_repor
t_graphics/footprint_interactive/
We are going to
have to take
over as
managers of
that which we
took for granted

3. Some Fundamentals….
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Econ.
Society
Environment
Linear, Simple,
Teachable,
Revenue>Costs
Strategy =
Money
During this time

4. Some Fundamentals….
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Balance….
Environment Social
Economic
What gets
measured gets
done….moving
but missing the
point….

5. Mutual embedding may be “so obvious…all human organisations
are embedded within the natural environment and all of those
which have human managers and other employees, also contain the
natural environment in their respective biophysical bodies” (Starik
& Kanashiro, 2013, p.8/9)

6. Some Fundamentals….
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Human Centric,
Anthropological,
Narrative Driven
Environment
Social
Economic
Ontologically
Consistent

7. Future Strategy is about us….
• Human first – homo sapiens…..
• Narrative Driven
Always was – but focused on wrong thing…putting money first
and forgetting exchange is conducted between people
Four truths to the storyteller…. (Guber 2007- http://hbr.org/2007/12/the-four-truths-of-the-storyteller/es)
1. True to the Teller
2. True to the Audience
3. True to the Time
4. True to the Mission
• And because of the situation we are in…and because
we all a conflation
Closed Loop, Service Based, Wellbeing driven….