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Mike Peirce: Introduction – The Future in Practice

January 2013 – The Future in Practice; the idea of the long term, and of avoiding ‘short-termism’, has become a dominant topic in business and sustainability debates.Download the report The question of how far leaders can envisage or influence the future has never been so hotly debated. In this Introduction to The State of Sustainability: The Futur…

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