Managing total impact will improve your company's decisions

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In business, money talks. But Malcolm Preston says in reality, we need a new language, particularly when it comes to decision making

The business world's obsession with monetising and quantifying decisions has often been a bugbear of campaigners and organisations in sustainability circles. Their worry has been that putting a price...

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