What are you talking about?

Remember Corona! That one little puny virus was capable of crippling all organisations to the furthest corners. Research (KNMI) has shown that via a roundabout way, Corona was caused by climate change. If we don’t want to experience that again, we will have to start seriously facing the possible consequences of climate change. And those consequences have to do with the way we do business, the set-up of organisations and the fact that the organisation stands or falls with the people who work there. And precisely the latter, therein lies the change.

Profit maximisation, growing for the sake of growing, cost efficiency and self-interest should give way to something else. That other thing is the role the organisation wants to play as part of our lives, in the neighbourhood, the country, the world. The role should yield the impact the organisation wants to have on the co-existence therein.

You can’t talk about solutions without looking at the root of that problem.

Now, you cannot talk about solutions without looking at the cause of that problem. And that cause is in the behaviour with which organisations do business. Achieving that change in that behaviour requires a mindshift. In short, a mindshift from ‘growing to grow’ to ‘impactful business’.

The human factor in organisations and the work people do in them is then of decisive importance. After all, people determine behaviour. People are immensely vulnerable and so are organisations. If you do not participate, do not change behaviour, then continuity is at stake. How viable are you if you do not dare to face the vulnerability, the Achilles heel of your people’s behaviour?

Changing behaviour is a tough job. So what about that in my organisation, how do I tackle that, what can I do. It is logical that you have these questions. Let’s have a cup of coffee and exchange views on this. We can always see what else we can do together.