The BEST BOOK OF 2021 for me was "Net-Positive" by
@PaulPolman & @AndrewWinston. It shows how companies can improve well-being for everyone they impact and at all scales. Here are some of it's most remarkable quotes (part 5/5): Hunter Lovins (on the primacy of GDP): “Our mental model of how the world works tells us we’re winning when we’re really losing”

The BEST BOOK OF 2021 for me was "Net-Positive" by @PaulPolman & @AndrewWinston. It shows how companies can improve well-being for everyone they impact and at all scales. I'll post a full review later, but here are some of it's most remarkable quotes (part 4/5): "The question of whether a company pays a fair share of taxes may not seem like it’s on the sustainability agenda, but it’s certainly part of being net-positive. Are you truly purpose driven if you pay no taxes?"

The BEST BOOK OF 2021 for me was "Net-Positive" by
@PaulPolman & @AndrewWinston. It shows how companies can improve well-being for everyone they impact and at all scales. I'll post a full review later, but here are some of it's most remarkable quotes (part 3/5): "Philip Morris has a clear purpose around the right to smoke, and fossil fuel companies talk about serving the world by providing energy.
But if your core product kills or makes the planet unliveable, how much is your purpose worth?"

In his @FT piece about Belgium & Congo, @neiLmunshi tells the economic, social & political stories of colonialization that few in Belgium know until today. Even now, it takes a foreign observer to inform us about our past. A shame, but worth reading: (1/n) ft.com/content/a17b87… The colonial company UMHK “became so powerful it was known as “a state within a state”. By 1961, its dominion spread over 7,000 square miles. It was in charge of its employees’ lives from birth to death, schooling their children, who then became workers themselves.” (2/n)

My dad, a virologist, wrote us another letter on #covid19. It helps me to calm down, and look at the world and what we’re going through from a more rational, scientific and yet more down to earth perspective. Have a read at BI, or the thread 🧵 summarizing his insights below:

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1242185736717307906

He told us: "I know you are all very worried now, even more so than last week. Since last we spoke, the number of new cases and deaths has gone up exponentially, whether in Belgium, Switzerland, the US or any of our neighbouring countries. I worry about that too" 1/

My dad, who retired last year as Head of Virology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, shared an interesting note with me and my siblings, to explain to us the situation and future outlook of the coronavirus in Europe, China and around the world. Here’s what he said: Europe (and the US) are right now in the rising part of the curve of detected cases of #covid19. “And they’ll remain there in the next two weeks, because the containment measures that were announced in recent days take a while to have an effect, because of the incubation period”