Tipping Point Initiative
Global Movement Initiative was formed to support regenerative change in business education for a sustainable world. We recently formed a collaboration with three other leading education groups to apply for a MacArthur 100&Change grant to help us accelerate change.
Our application is anchored by the GRLI, GMI, IAJBS and oikos International. And our effort has been endorsed by over a dozen other groups and more endorsements continue to come in.
What is the Tipping Point Initiative?
Collectively, our organizations are recruiting educators to make rapid and radical changes in their curriculum to revise business education. We will engage more than 1/3 of recognized business schools in revising what we teach, and reorienting business to address the global polycrisis affecting our work and lives.
Many of the organizations endorsing this effort have supported and recognized the heroic efforts made by educators to transform what they teach to incorporate and address economic and environmental disparities. These business education pioneers have challenged the damage that maximizing profit and growth have on our ability to thrive on this planet.
Now we are leveraging their efforts to speed up systemic and dramatic change. We are signing up faculty, student, or administrative teams that represent 200 business schools. By registering, they are committing to acting within 6 months to a year in transforming their courses for sustainable business. And we are asking them to recruit additional 2 or more teams so that we have 800 or more business schools making critical changes quickly.
Are you and your colleagues passionate about transforming business education for a regenerative world? Are you ready to sign up or would you like more information?
Please see our registration form and more information at https://grli.org/Tipping-Point/
Help us all BE the change that we need to see in the world!
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy…
the quotation by William Hutchinson Murray frequently attributed, not very accurately, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that is often phrased as:
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!