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A Lifetime Achievement Award

John Elkington · 25 September 2015 · 1 Comment

More or less out of the blue, I was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at this evening’s Ethical Corporation Responsible Business Awards ceremony in Marble Arch. Sadly, I couldn’t be there, but promptly began to hear via email and Twitter from people who were.

The first comment (excerpt) came from Sylvain Guyoton of EcoVadis, where I have been a member of the Advisory Board for many years:

“I was at the Ethical Corp Award ceremony (London) tonight with my colleague John Rees, and I was surprised to hear that you were the winner of Ethical Corp life time achievement award … You are way too young for this 🙂 … I hope you are not going to retire … Just joking!”

Most of the comments were to the same effect, that people couldn’t imagine that I knew what retirement was – and, most bluntly, that I wasn’t allowed to stop.

If I had been able to attend and give an acceptance speech, it would have been to the effect that I’m only just beginning to get some sense of what it is that I’m meant to be doing down here on this little planet of ours – and that I also feel strongly that the next decade (what we call the ‘Breakthrough Decade,’ from 2016 to 2025) could be the most challenging, exciting and productive of my life.

On verra!

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  1. Felipe Arango says

    1 October 2015 at 12:47 pm

    Adelante John! To continued inspiration and great work! Keep it coming.

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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