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Peter Burgess

John Duong, WK Kellogg Foundation on 'defining impact'. Damien Hughes Marketing Executive at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford John Duong, Programme and Portfolio Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation youtube.com John Duong, Programme and Portfolio Officer, W. K. Kellogg Foundation discusses his role and his session on managing a unique department focused on delivering impact investing or mission driven initiatives as part of the Oxford Impact Investing...

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Ajit Jhangiani Ajit Ajit Jhangiani Serving those who serve others. Social Enterprise and CSR.

Mission is between me and my conscience. Love it. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 13 hours ago Damien H. likes this

Peter Burgess Peter Burgess Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics developing Multi Dimension Impact Accounting

I have been told that if you don't have anything positive to say, you should keep your mouth shut. Accordingly I won't say anything about John Duong's talk. He seems a very nice guy, but surely it is about time we got beyond discussing in very soft terms about the definitions of impact and got round to measuring impact in ALL its dimensions. I keep pinching myself because I really cannot believe how poor improvement in global enviro-socio-economic performance is relative to the growth in our global knowledge and technology. I use the example of a computer installation I was involved with in 1967 where the memory was 4K and now my phone has 4G ... just a million times more powerful. Why is society going down when the technology and knowledge we have has gone up so much. Its all about systemic dysfunction and structural malfunction ... and in my view its time we got serious about fixing it. Delete 1 second ago