Ethical Efficiency™: Transforming Tomorrow Together
In this Forbes article, Ethical Efficiency™: Transforming Tomorrow Together, Forbes Councils member and GLSS Founder & Chairman Karlo Tanjuakio describes Ethical Efficiency™ as a modern evolution of operational excellence designed to meet the urgent needs of today’s fast-paced and complex world.
While traditional frameworks such as Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, and TQM revolutionized how organizations approached process and quality, they often overlooked the balance between speed and purpose. The author highlights that without ethics, efficiency becomes reckless, and without efficiency, ethics lacks impact. Ethical Efficiency integrates precision, discipline, and adaptability with moral clarity and human-centered design, offering a framework that prioritizes both results and responsibility.
At its core, Ethical Efficiency rests on three principles:
Compassion, placing human dignity at the center of systems and leadership
Competence, ensuring that intentions translate into disciplined execution and measurable value
Courage, guiding leaders to make principled decisions even in the face of difficulty.
This approach demands alignment between values and actions, encouraging leaders and teams to start small but lead with integrity, empathy, and excellence. Ultimately, the article argues that the true leaders of tomorrow will not be those who are the fastest, but those who are ethically grounded, adaptive, and committed to uplifting people and communities. Ethical Efficiency is not just an idea but the roadmap to building a future where progress serves purpose.
Whether you’re a CEO or a student, an educator or an entrepreneur, your influence matters. Because systems don’t transform themselves—people do. Together, we can transform not just our teams or organizations but the very trajectory of tomorrow. Let’s transform tomorrow together—with Ethical Efficiency. - Karlo Tanjuakio, GLSS + Kure
