Sustainability - A Real Issue

Until I was a part of the sustainability team at work, I was in the dark about this concept. With recent events around the country and the world, sustainability needs to take center stage and every manager/owner needs to look into this more closely. While we incorporate sustainability generally in all decision-making, doing so in a slightly structured way makes sure you don't miss anything of significance and ensure a methodical process is followed to get it right every time. You can get all the mantras for business sustainability from textbooks.

I just want to connect a few issues to bring out their relevance. Consider the 2015 floods in Chennai or rather major parts of Tamil Nadu due to the cyclonic storm systems that bore their might over south India. Acute lack of city planning and encroachment into rivers and lake systems were exposed that left much of Chennai's infrastructure reeling, with corporates making a beeline for makeshift arrangements of work from home or temporary shift to Bengaluru. Following this, the Karnataka bandh (shutdown) due to the Cauvery dispute in effect intermittently for almost a month throwing commerce and commuter plans into uncertainty. During the bandh, once again corporates put…