• Set Ambitious but Realistic Environmental Goals

    Moving the needle on meeting major sustainability goals â€" like cutting carbon emissions â€" requires setting objectives that are ambitious enough to reflect an organization’s vision and yet sufficiently realistic about business requirements so that early wins can be achieved and momentum can be built. The authors walk readers through a five-step process for identifying and setting sustainability goals, and for managing the tension between urgent needs for climate action and maintaining business health.
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  • How Corporate Clout Helps Communities Thrive

    Business leaders are turning their attention toward building prosperity at home, in the communities where they live and work to tackle complex local issues, including health care, early childhood development, and housing. Initiatives that produce results demonstrate five tenets: They tell a clear, purposeful story; combine community priorities with institutional goals; are led inclusively; typically influence the member organizations' own internal policies; and impel company leaders to acknowledge difficult truths.
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  • Nimble Leadership

    Nobody really recommends command-and-control leadership anymore. But no fully formed alternative has emerged. So mature companies often struggle to balance the need for innovation with the need for discipline. The authors studied two exceptions: the new-product-development stars PARC and W.L. Gore. Both companies, they learned, have three distinct types of leaders. "Entrepreneurial leaders," found at lower levels, create new products and services and move their firms into unexplored territory. "Enabling leaders," in the middle, make sure the entrepreneurs have the resources they need. And "architecting leaders," near the top, monitor culture, high-level strategy, and structure. This system allows both companies to be self-managing to a surprising degree. Employees choose their work assignments and dream up new projects, whose success rests on colleagues' volunteering to join in--making the companies collective prediction markets. And the mechanisms that enable self-management also balance freedom and control: The companies function efficiently and exploit new opportunities even as they minimize rules.
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  • Triodos Bank: Conscious Money in Action

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