The customer is upstream

The customer is upstream

I keep returning to an old business truth that too many executives seem determined to forget: no company, regenerative or otherwise, gets to exist because it wrote a lovely purpose statement. It exists because customers allow it to. A...
Transforming business education

Transforming business education

Transforming business education Recognising that today’s business schools often remain anchored in outdated economic models, The Fifth Element is supporting an initiative to radically rethink business and leadership education. It brings together educators, accreditors...
The path to a new and wiser economics

The path to a new and wiser economics

Imagine a debate on nutrition reduced to a confrontation between those who eat only salad and those who eat only chocolate. Absurd, isn’t it? In the face of extraordinary complexity, economics, the framework that studies value and exchanges, has become enclosed within...
Toward regenerative business

Toward regenerative business

Toward regenerative business How can we create the conditions for a regenerative economy? How can organisations support regenerative economies across the world? If the aim is to achieve “sustainable development,” regeneration must become the new norm. To achieve this,...