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“If diversity and inclusion initiatives are approached as a form of charity, it will result in some people benefiting at the expense of others. Instead, diversity and inclusion should be approached as a way to expand capacity and as a hedge against risk. If you look at nature, that’s what diversity does… expand capacity and hedge against risk.”

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Book:Business Essentials
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“City Planners, collectively, play a huge role in societies’ ability to steward capital wisely. With most of humanity living in cities, their efficiency or lack there of has huge implications for how people interact with resources. And from an ESG perspective, the condition of civilization can be largely measured by the interactions between people and resources”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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“Ultimately, incentive structures and systems drive ESG investing, which can be disingenuous. Structurally, public market investors continue to focus on the incentives which maximize their financial returns, even while taking certain ESG inputs into account in their portfolio allocations. Only by regulating and incentivizing the actual outcomes might investors alter their investment strategies towards new rewards based on ESG outputs.”

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Book:The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
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“The greatest things in civilization were all made possible by the wise stewardship of Capital. And all of the problems of the world have as their root cause a misuse or waste of capital. Therefore the primary concern for every business and every human endeavor, is the wise stewardship of Capital. And this is especially true for every Chief Sustainability Officer.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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“While directly serving their customers, companies should indirectly serve the interests of society by taking responsibility for the holistic impact of their activities. Its simply a more broad view of value creation. This is what ESG is all about. With this perspective, the goal is still Profit — Profit for all stakeholders, to varying degrees and in varying capacities of course. This holistic view of profit produces what I call Multiplicative Value Effects, or, win-win scenarios as opposed to win-lose scenarios where the prerequisite of a companies win is a loss for societal stakeholders.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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