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Schillebeeckx: Maximizing positive 'handprints' beats reducing negative footprints for corporate sustainability
“Our overarching thesis is that the environmental responsibility of an organization should not be limited to simply reducing its negative impact. There's a much more aspirational goal to be found in working with companies to create a positive impact in the worl…”
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Schillebeeckx: Forcing retail customers to donate at checkout backfires on brands
“It should not force the customer to make an additional payment because this is unlikely to work and actually it's more likely to backfire. It might create negative impact.”
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Schillebeeckx: On-chain impact tokenization adds corporate friction unless abstracted
“The tokenization of impact itself is not necessarily something you want to do on a blockchain because it's going to create quite a lot of friction, especially in terms of corporate adoption, right? So unless if you can make it really opaque, So that companies …”
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Schillebeeckx: Treating employees 'how you want to be treated' is management bullshit
“The risk in this kind of approach is that it's like this idea that it comes from the Bible, right? So you should treat people the way you want to be treated. That's like a biblical narrative. Bullshit. Because that assumes that people are the same as you. You …”
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Schillebeeckx: Handprint acts as commercial agents selling NGO impact products
“We work as commercial agents for nonprofit organizations that we bring into our ecosystem. That means that we are responsible for selling their impact products. And so we kind of move away from fundraising. We work with NGOs to turn them to kind of help them e…”
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Schillebeeckx: Handprint removed 'fundraising' from marketing to avoid regulatory liabilities
“We very recently had to do a massive sweep through our website, all of our sales materials. And so to make sure that the word fundraising does not appear in that in the, in that documentation, because it's very easy to explain to people that, This is, we work …”
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Schillebeeckx: 90% to 95% of sustainability competitors focus on carbon offsets
“Why we deliberately develop a narrative that deviates from what 90 to 95% of our competitors are doing. Because most of our competitors are focusing on Carbon offsetting and reducing your footprint. And this is a narrative that we don't embrace.”
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Schillebeeckx: Homophilic hiring severely limits an early team's exploratory range
“If you have very strong homophilic team, very similar backgrounds, let's say the first five people that we hire are also white males in their mid to late thirties that have also somehow maybe moved to Asia, then you're really hiring very similar people. And th…”
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Schillebeeckx: India mandates corporate philanthropy once companies turn profitable
“Except like in countries like India, you have a regulatory obligation to do some kind of philanthropic giving from the moment that you become profitable.”
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Schillebeeckx removed himself from early hiring stages at Handprint
“For me personally, it's become very obvious that I'm not very good at hiring people, or necessarily firing people, but I'm not very good at that decision-making based on very
An incomplete and rudimentary information about someone.
And as a consequence, I've s…”
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Schillebeeckx: Handprint methodology for positive impact was designed at MIT
“There is a, it's a scientific term that is not so popular, but it basically captures all the positive impact you're creating in the world. And there's an entire scientific methodology that mainly was designed by people at MIT that tries to help organizations f…”
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Schillebeeckx: Handprint founders hold bimonthly company-wide sessions detailing their biggest mistakes
“We've instigated this practice. We've only done it, I think twice, but it's normally going to be like every two months that we hold a company-wide session about my biggest”
