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Year Month Day Reading Time: Minutes Topics Social Responsibility Workplaces, Teams, and Culture Climate Change Equity Sustainability Collaboration Subscribe Share What to Read Next MIT Artificial Intelligence Must-Read Book Year Ten Best Articles Twenty Years of Open Innovation Adding Cybersecurity Expertise to Your Boardroom Peter Senge How can Peter Senge get rid of disposable cups? This morning, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management posed this question in an interesting keynote address at the 2019 MIT Sustainability Summit.
Senge author of acclaimed books such as The Fifth Discipline and The Necessary Revolution, focuses on the need for collaboration between unlikely partners to make real progress on sustainability issues , and transform our take-and-make-waste economy into a new, more Job Function Email List sustainable economy. Senge pointed to the example of disposable coffee cups (a topic that clearly occurred to him, as he attended the Sustainability Summit at a cup summit held at a Starbucks down the street) that MIT Sustainability Summit attendees Project that considers the need for cooperation in sustainable development. Senge asked the audience: Who must work together to eliminate single-use cups? Suggested answers include everyone from Starbucks and its competitors to paper manufacturers.
Food service providers, recyclers and city governments. Senge explained that making real progress on the really tough sustainability issues is a difficult collaborative task. More importantly, he pointed out that parties who need to cooperate are often not naturally willing to cooperate, such as competitors in the same industry who need to cooperate, or NGOs who need to cooperate with businesses.
Senge author of acclaimed books such as The Fifth Discipline and The Necessary Revolution, focuses on the need for collaboration between unlikely partners to make real progress on sustainability issues , and transform our take-and-make-waste economy into a new, more Job Function Email List sustainable economy. Senge pointed to the example of disposable coffee cups (a topic that clearly occurred to him, as he attended the Sustainability Summit at a cup summit held at a Starbucks down the street) that MIT Sustainability Summit attendees Project that considers the need for cooperation in sustainable development. Senge asked the audience: Who must work together to eliminate single-use cups? Suggested answers include everyone from Starbucks and its competitors to paper manufacturers.
Food service providers, recyclers and city governments. Senge explained that making real progress on the really tough sustainability issues is a difficult collaborative task. More importantly, he pointed out that parties who need to cooperate are often not naturally willing to cooperate, such as competitors in the same industry who need to cooperate, or NGOs who need to cooperate with businesses.