Burgess COMMENTARY
Good to meet .. very interesting

You seem to be doing some pretty interesting / important things ... and getting into it before it became hugely fashionable. I am not very good on the law, regulations, compliance and all that, but am focusing on trying to get the metrics better so that we can stop arguing about words and simply go to work to make the right numbers better ... specifically that is company performance (profit), social performance (people) and environmental performance (planet). Until we have numbers for these things, it will be difficult to get traction in management meetings are all levels.

All the very best with you work

Peter Burgess
Peter Burgess

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