Chapter six
Systems orientation
The Competence (Figure 6.1):
A sustainably competent professional thinks and acts from a systemic perspective.
According to Brundtland, sustainability is about two things. It is about the needs of the people who are living now, i.e. about spreading prosperity across the entire planet, and about the needs of the people living later. Those two sides of sustainability are often referred to as two dimensions: “place” and “time.” In Chapter 2, you already encountered the two when they were introduced in the context of responsibility: the consequence scope (= place) and the ...
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