4XP - Zero Sum Economic Principles
As interest in economic world growth and global warming increases those who want to achieve success are choosing to do so through ethical and socially responsible means. Many are finding that they must send out the right messages to attract not only customers but also the best people to work for them.
One way is to have a strategy for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It is reported that a business advertising that they are being socially responsible is NOT necessarily a big deal to employees and customers - but being socially irresponsible IS!
As part of this shift in avoiding needless duplication and waste comes non-zero sum principles where businesses look at:
- building upon the knowledge and expertise of what is already naturally in place
- creating transparent and open communications with customers and staff
- operating in an ethical and trustworthy manner
- supporting and joining up expertise within local communities through social awareness
- investing in local social and natural capital to create sustainable living and growth
- using existing resources more prudently encourages innovative solutions to problems
As society becomes increasingly non-zero-sum it becomes more complex, specialized, and interdependent. Former US President Bill Clinton (December 2000) explained:
"The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions. That is, win-win solutions instead of win-lose solutions.... Because we find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well - so we have to find ways that we can all win, we have to accommodate each other"
4XP runs its Community of Partnership (CoPart) in an eclectic way utilising this thinking by supporting Independent business professionals living and working locally.
If you are an 'exceptional' Independent Sole Trader that could work to non-zero sum principles and would like to join us then go to the Become a 4XP Independent page
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