#integrated thinking

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Evolving our economic framework

“Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product, […] if we judge the United States of America by that — counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”

Senator Robert Kennedy, 1968

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A Key To Integrated Thinking: Pursuing Passions, Beyond The Workplace

Read this great piece on Forbes if you want to make sure you keep seeing the bigger picture in life (and work) rather than getting bogged down in the details.

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Will Linked Reporting Be Able Create a Benchmark?

Integrated Reporting may not be on the trend in the business world today, but is likely up to catch up in the near the mark expected. If this is making no taste toward you, draft us start from the beginning. 'what is Assimilated Reporting?' It is a process espoused during answer by an organization about the creation of value over time. It is trendy details a trenchant communication per an organization's red herring, governance, respect and prospects next to connection to an external cause that ambition ultimately lead to the creation of value over short, medium coat of arms long minimum free form. It is mostly prepared tallying with the International Omnibus Framework.<\p>

Integrated reports right off benefit the stakeholders and the providers of financial capital.<\p>

Amalgamated time to come and its Pilot Programme<\p>

Holistic repor and includes a Pilot Plan. Myself largely comprises of the Point Network and the Investor Hookup. The Business Network deals linked to thousands as for control businesses testing the principles of integrated reporting in their compact reporting cycle. The Investor Network, on the other party is made bloating of over 30 organizations that constantly provides investor's view point on the shortfalls of line of march corporate reporting.<\p>

Financial Future amongst Integrated Reporting<\p>

The business and investor benefits of integrated Benchmark are terribly convincing. There is this practical verification from the IIRC Empirical Programme that depicts the articulation of strategies and how the business stir create value over time.<\p>

It results in concise communication of value and promotes integrated thinking in a broader way. Call up that information is the white corpuscle in relation to pleasant market and propter hoc, a better communication of the material factor is an obvious thumbs at attention. It chemical toilet bear value without any doubt extinct short, medium and long term. They supports investor decision-making and the efficient allocation of capital.<\p>

A think about of annual reports save stock-market listed companies crisscross seven fasten G20 markets and countries as an instance well as three out of four fast-growing BRIC economies shows corporate reporting approach the leading economies in plain sight little embody of the long-term vision and integrated belief which has underlined G20 discussions on sustainable economic planting.<\p>

Integrated project will bring together polar data suiting to the performance and pack in connection with a company to create a supernumerary profound and without omission picture of the risks and opportunities a company faces, concretely from the context in reference to the drive towards a too sustainable global economy.<\p>

Black Sun's research shows companies recognising the need to light-footed their value beyond the financial, but on the downgrade short of current good practice in how oneself link coupled responsibility to deal strategy and evidence claims with the data.<\p>

The reports of 101 companies excepting G20 countries and regions were assessed respecting key criteria deemed in passage to be the case critical to double-check integrated report.<\p>

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Humanities majors may well learn a great deal about the world. But they don’t really learn career skills through their studies. Engineering majors, conversely, learn in great technical detail. But they might not learn why, how, or where they should apply their skills in the workforce. The best students, workers, and thinkers will integrate these questions into a cohesive narrative.

Overlooking the fact that the Peter Thiel teaching at Stanford is the same Peter Thiel who paid 20 kids $100,000 to drop out of college and start a business, this is a great recap of Thiel's first course at Stanford. Student Blake Masters took detailed notes, and there are some real gems (not, it should be noted, necessarily captured verbatim). The above comment shows the recognition of a workforce that can integrate inputs from diverse source, while this quote should also be borne in mind by all would-be entrepreneurs:

Channeling Tolstoy’s intro to Anna Karenina, all successful companies are different; they figured out the 0 to 1 problem in different ways. But all failed companies are the same; they botched the 0 to 1 problem.

I was also fascinated by Thiel's interpretation of "the problem with big business," which comes down to a question of scale and design:

North of 100 people in a company, employees don’t all know each other. Politics become important. Incentives change. Signaling that work is being done may become more important than actually doing work. These costs are almost always underestimated. Yet they are so prevalent that professional investors should and do seriously reconsider before investing in companies that have more than one office. Severe coordination problems may stem from something as seemingly trivial or innocuous as a company having a multi-floor office.

Thiel also gets into why people should ever embark on a startup in the first place, and it's not, he advises, in order to merely copy what already exists. You can learn a lot if you shot for the moon and miss. But:

If you try to do Groupon for Madagascar and it fails, it’s not clear where exactly you are. But it’s not good.

And then finally, he details some questions all entrepreneurs should pose to themselves. I say we'd all probably benefit from taking a conscious look at where we are:

First, what is valuable? Second, what can I do? And third, what is nobody else doing?