Council Fire's CEO places Eric among four converging diagnoses — 'the fourth independent voice in the last six months to arrive at the same structural diagnosis from a different vantage point'

Chmael runs Council Fire, a sustainability and management consultancy, and reads Eric's piece on the end of shareholder primacy as confirmation rather than novelty. He sets it alongside his own firm's End of Extraction white paper, Paul Polman naming the move from extraction to stewardship as the century's defining challenge, and the World Inequality Lab quantifying the link between inequality and ecological breakdown — four vantage points, he argues, reaching one conclusion within a year. What Eric adds, in his reading, is the organizational mechanics: companies without mission protection get stripped. His firm is building on it, through a place-based strategy called Redefining Profit whose first demonstration is in the Mid-Atlantic.

“For my count, he is now the fourth independent voice in the last six months to arrive at the same structural diagnosis from a different vantage point.” — George Chmael II on LinkedIn