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On Systems Thinking and Sustainability

Segment 1

" Companies depend on the broader context, the general economic system within which they operate. If business leaders want to change their stategies radically and implement breakthrough sustainability concepts, they may have to form innovative groups in order to collaborate on changing the underlying system itself...."

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Segment 2

" You might think that if you pollute a river, it is only that river which is being impacted. In reality it is a whole ecosystem, with multiple intricate interdependencies, which is being destroyed. Since our very survival depends on the integrity and health of such whole ecosystems, we need to learn to adopt a comprehensive, whole systems perspective, to the things we do....." 

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