“Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.” PeopleDifferentSometimesDifficultViewsStepsAchieveCostBlockReduction Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer
“Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.” WorldDifferentValuesCostInvestmentFinancialAccessOwnershipFundingDurationFinancial ServicesCapital Investment Author:Lisa Gansky
“Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.” WorldWellsDifferentNationsInterestExampleCostOrganizationInstitutionsRemainsClimateClimate ChangeInternationalFluStaggeringGet WellHypotheticalSwinePolioWorld HealthConfluenceWorld Health OrganizationSwine Flu Author:Charles Krauthammer
“It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a miracle.” DifferentCostMiracleMusicalGet UpDepartment Author:Susan Stroman
“To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?” TwoDifferentLightVoiceSilenceShareCostBenefitsShadowConsequenceThemeDifferent ExperiencesLight And Shadow Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentTermSimpleAnswersBusinessCasesClearCostMountainSmartCustomersDifferent WaysThings To DoClimbingGoodwillStunning Author:Ray Anderson
“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.” IfsNeedsLooksDifferentWarWould BeTodayLinesBusinessPayGenerationsMiddleHonestCostBottomOilEastGlobal WarmingMiddle EastBottom LineFuture Generation Author:Ray Anderson
“If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.” IfsNeedsLooksDoeDifferentTodayValuesLinesBusinessHonestCostResourcesAccountsSpeciesBottomFactorsSustainabilityExtinctionBottom LineMarketplaceResource DepletionSpecies Extinction Author:Ray Anderson
“Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.” HumansHas BeensStillsDifferentWarPoliticalGoneLandCostIraqOutcomesOccupationRoutesHostileInvasionBarrenExtending Author:George H. W. Bush
“Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?” PeopleDoeDifferentProblemLyingWhiteAcceptingConditionsMovementFieldsCostActivityWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the investment can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. You're going to have to run scenarios. You might even need agreement from the C.E.O. to make that type of decision. If it's an incremental, low-cost decision in a marketing-oriented company, it may be a very different set of stakeholders a lot further down in the organization.” PeopleIfsNeedsMayDifferentBigsMightRunningDecisionCompanyMillionsTypeInvolvedCostLowsOrganizationDollarsInvestmentMarketingFinanceAgreementDecision MakingScenariosPharmaceuticalStakeholderPharmaceutical Companies Author:John Kao
“Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.” DifferentCountrySeeingExampleCostAnalysisMapsSyriaJordan Author:Abdallah II