One Question Three Books
For more than forty years, one question has guided my work:
“Why do intelligent organizations consistently create outcomes they never intended?”
Each of these books explores that question from a different perspective.
Together, they form a connected body of work for leaders seeking to build organizations that create enduring commercial success while strengthening the conditions that support life.
Our Common Future—Now
Why Sustainability Reached Its Ceiling and What Comes Next.
Why has forty years of sustainability delivered genuine progress but failed to change the overall trajectory?
Our Common Future—Now argues that the answer lies deeper than strategy, reporting, or implementation. It examines the hidden assumptions that shape organizational decisions, introduces the concepts of the Sustainability Ceiling™, Belief Architecture™, and Design Like Nature™, and offers a new framework for understanding how organizations can move beyond incremental improvement toward genuine transformation.
Published August 2026.
Perfectly Wrong
When Artificial Intelligence Inherits Yesterday’s Assumptions
Artificial intelligence is becoming every executive’s advisor.
But what happens when AI confidently reproduces assumptions that have already limited business sustainability for forty years?
Perfectly Wrong explores why AI’s greatest risk may not be hallucination but faithful repetition. It introduces a practical approach for identifying hidden assumptions before they become embedded in strategy, governance, and decision-making at machine speed.
Published August 2026.
Companion resource: The AI Assumption-Risk Checklist
Real Circularity
Turning Circular Economy Theory into Business Reality
Published in 2023 and co-authored with Rachel S. Kan, Real Circularity bridges the gap between circular economy theory and practical implementation.
Drawing on decades of experience, it provides businesses with practical guidance for moving from circular ambition to measurable action.
Learn more about Real Circularity →
A Connected Body of Work
These books are not independent projects.
They are successive explorations of the same inquiry.
Real Circularity explores implementation.
Our Common Future—Now examines why transformation hits a ceiling.
Perfectly Wrong asks what happens when artificial intelligence amplifies the same hidden assumptions.
Together, they describe the journey that has shaped Circularity Edge and the work I now do with organizations around the world.
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