The Triple Bottom Line assesses organisational performance through three connected outcomes: economic viability, social wellbeing and environmental health—often expressed as people, planet and profit.
It asks whether apparent success depends on shifting costs or harm onto employees, communities, ecosystems or future generations. The three outcomes cannot be treated as separate accounts where strength in one automatically excuses damage in another.
Within Adapt, Survive & Flourish, the framework is a starting point rather than the destination. Moving from profit to prosperity asks whether both the organisation and the wider systems on which it depends are becoming more viable, resilient and healthy.