"Decision-makers, managers, and researchers must work together to build organizations that are in harmony with the Earth system."

"Decision-makers, managers, and researchers must work together to build organizations that are in harmony with the Earth system."

That is the title of this op-ed published in Les Echos and driven by theemlyon business school through his research chair, “Strategy in the Anthropocene,” and IF Initiative.

The message is clear: the world is facing unprecedented geopolitical, environmental, and social crises.

Now that a seventh planetary boundary has been crossed, it is our ways of thinking, organizing, and making collective decisions that are proving outdated and are at risk.

While human societies have never been more technologically advanced, they are, paradoxically, more vulnerable than ever to climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the depletion of resources...

Our survival depends on the full and complete integration of the Earth system into organizational decision-making processes and activities.

For this integration to take place, two essential dialogs must be initiated:

One between leaders and researchers,

The other lies between Earth sciences and management sciences.

In order to stop producing diagnoses that lack actionable steps and managerial strategies that are disconnected from reality and these challenges.

Read the joint op-ed here