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Jan 18, 2025 | 
johnelkington.substack.com | John Elkington
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
fastcompanyme.com | John Elkington
I have spent 50 years helping the world focus on making individual businesses more responsible, a story I tell in my new book, Tickling Sharks. At the end of 2024, I now see this approach as uncomfortably like cleaning up individual fish before plopping them back into dirty, polluted waters. My rethink has been spurred by seeing leading CEOs announcing pullbacks on their climate and wider sustainability commitments.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
fastcompanyme.com | John Elkington
“Change is rarely linear,” says Hannah Jones in her foreword to my new book, Tickling Sharks. Once Nike’s first chief sustainability officer, she is perhaps best known these days as CEO of Prince William’s Earthshot Prize.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | John Elkington
“Change is rarely linear,” says Hannah Jones in her foreword to my new book, Tickling Sharks. Once Nike’s first chief sustainability officer, she is perhaps best known these days as CEO of Prince William’s Earthshot Prize.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
fastcompanyme.com | John Elkington
Looking back, I don’t remember anyone ever advising me to enter business as a shark tickler. Still, while some brave people risk life and limb taming lions and tigers, I set out to rein in the corporate world’s man-eaters—or “the future eaters,” as Tim Flannery dubbed them in his book of the same name. These are powerful people, businesses, and industries able (and willing) to dictate the fates of thousands, millions, even billions of people.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | John Elkington
Looking back, I don’t remember anyone ever advising me to enter business as a shark tickler. Still, while some brave people risk life and limb taming lions and tigers, I set out to rein in the corporate world’s man-eaters—or “the future eaters,” as Tim Flannery dubbed them in his book of the same name. These are powerful people, businesses, and industries able (and willing) to dictate the fates of thousands, millions, even billions of people.
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May 7, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | John Elkington
I felt physically ill when I read about the latest shooting on Beale Street in late April. Three security guards were shot at a popular club. My first thought was how hard we worked to return commerce to this historic street and to make it a safe place to enjoy live music and good food.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
imd.org | Sudhanshu Sarronwala |Bali Padda |John Elkington |George Kohlrieser
It’s nearly 30 years since John Elkington first posed the concept of the “triple bottom line” (TBL) in his milestone book Cannibals with Forks. Moving beyond shareholder and financial value alone, Elkington postulated that success in this century would be determined by companies that look at three bottom lines – the economic, the ecological, and the social.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
imd.org | Goutam Challagalla |Raphaël Grieco |Bali Padda |John Elkington
Less than a year after generative AI began to come to the fore, one-third of companies say they are already using it regularly in at least one business function.1 While executives may think that Generative AI is synonymous with ChatGPT and can be only used to generate text, it is capable of creating images and audio as well, offering the potential to transform work processes across marketing, customer services, supply chain, HR, and other functions.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
imd.org | Bali Padda |John Elkington |George Kohlrieser |Amanda Williams
In the early years of this century, the UK national postal service centralized and automated its financial reporting systems for thousands of post offices around the country, typically run by small, independent business owners, known as sub-postmasters. The project, supplied by Fujitsu, was called Horizon. After the roll-out, many of the sub-postmasters began reporting bugs in the system, often registering a significant but incorrect shortfall in takings.
