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Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

Business, Optimistic, People

Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."

William McDonough

Jobs, Business, Practice

William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan

Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

Business, Mean, Effectiveness

William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan