Fast Company Series on C-Suite Agenda
John Elkington
April 23, 2010
In a new 7-blog series for Fast Company magazine, Charmian Love and I look at how key C-Suite players are coping with the new wild cards dealt by environment, social and governance challenges.
As sustainability activists and professionals are drawn into the corporate world as stakeholders and strategy consultants, we thought it might help to have a deck of cards identifying key players in today’s C-Suite – the rarefied realm of business decision-makers like CEOs, CFOs and COOs, all of whom have the word “Chief” in their title.
We know we’re not the first to describe capitalism as a high-stakes poker game, but in these seven blogs we take the metaphor at face value. After all, “Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy,” wrote poker columnist Lou Krieger. “It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”
We would be very interested to hear your views.
john@volans.com
