Paul Polman: CEOs should put grandchildren ahead of greed / FT

Paul Polman: CEOs should put grandchildren ahead of greed | Financial Times (ft.com)

ユニリーバの前CEOのPaul Polmanさんの記事。記者とのインタビュー内容の要約っぽいです。10月5日に’Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take Hardcover’　という本を出されるみたいです。

Polmanさんの言葉をいくつか紹介

- the cost of inaction is now higher than the cost of action
- How do you define a net positive company? に対して、 I put it very simply. Organisations should not be creating the world’s problems but actually solving them. 
-  The book is saying multilateralism isn’t working. COP26, the outcomes are dreadful.
-  What I discovered over time, by frankly falling and standing up again, is you need to get about 20-25 per cent of an industry together to find the tipping point. 
- Milton Friedman defined the social responsibility of business as being to make a profit, within the rules of the game. How do you define it? に対して、The main definition for me is a longer-term multi-stakeholder model with purpose at the core, where you maximise the return to all stakeholders. The social responsibility of business ultimately is to ensure we have a healthier planet.
-  [The ESG boom] reminds me sometimes of the dotcom period.
- Are we entering a new chapter of the ESG story where stakeholders are demanding to see more impact? Is there more of a “show me” mood? に対して、Not only “show me” but “show me now”.