Does corporate accountability and sustainability pay bottom-line benefits? It’s easy to say it does – but not always true.

The truth is, the interests of corporations often conflict with those of society and the environment. If they didn’t, battles over these interests would be few.

But there is one way to align accountability, sustainability, and profit: by taking a systems approach. When companies take a systems approach, they harness the power of FEEDBACK to drive adaptations that serve both shareholders and stakeholders, and deliver greater gains for all.

What We Learned in the Rainforest shows how companies can use systems of feedback to drive innovation, adaptation, growth, and sustainability, creating bottom line profit while benefiting the community and environment.

Our methods aren’t theoretical. By applying the very same systems principles that create resiliency in the rainforest, Future 500 companies like Coca-Cola, Coors, Mitsubishi, Nike, and others have produced documented savings in the billions of dollars. These methods outperform standard mechanistic approaches because they are:

• Less expensive – systems achieve multiple goals simultaneously.
• More effective – systems harness strategic partnerships that have synergetic impacts.
• Self-regulating – systems harness internal incentives to drive continued success.
• Market-based – systems apply principles that create value in nature and the free market
• More sustainable – systems pay their own way. All participants in a healthy system experience a net gain – a “profit” – that motivates them to keep working together for mutual advantage.

Journey through the rich natural rainforests of Costa Rica, Borneo, and Bali – and the corporate brainforests of Coca-Cola, General Electric, Microsoft and others – to learn the extraordinary secrets that can boost performance in your company.
What We Learned in the Rainforest delivers a practical, creative, hands-on, systems approach to maximize adaptation, innovation, and the creation of value in your company. Easy-to-understand, intuitive lessons from nature and business immerse your team in the fascinating field of complex adaptive systems, and teach them the practical leading edge skills they need.

BENEFITS

Participants will learn to:

• Harness feedback and systems thinking to yield bottom line benefit at their company.
• Establish a closed loop system that drives continuous performance gains in the areas they target.
• Develop a strategic plan to stimulate breakthrough innovation and continuous improvement.
• Manage their companies through the four phases of the business life cycle: innovation, growth, variation, and restructuring.
• Create profit sustainably.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Executives and managers seeking practical mastery of systems thinking and sustainability.
Managers responsible for innovation, improvement, or sustainability.
Employees who want to understand and apply systems thinking.

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