Category: Strategy
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The Inner Development Goals
Climate Action Tai Tokerau has set up a Whangārei IDG Community Hub, joining more than 700 other hubs globally. A group of Europeans established the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) based on the realisation that we will not achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Indeed, for many of the goals, we are going…
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U.N. 2.0 – The Real U.N.
Several agencies of the United Nations do great work globally. And there are more. The Security Council – a fundamental flaw But there is a fundamental flaw in the UN – the Security Council – that turns out to be not that secure at all. The UN and its predecessor were born out of the…
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Book review – We: How to Increase Performance and Profits Through Full Engagement
Rudy Karsan and Kevin Kruse’s book is pragmatic and of use to anyone looking to improve employee engagement. The book is organised into four parts. The first two deal with the individual and I will get my objections to them out of the way before discussing the gems to be found in parts three and…
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Blue Ocean Strategy and Sustainability
You have probably heard about or read Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. It has been translated into 42 languages and sold over 2 million copies – so it fair to say it has made quite a splash. The authors came in a second spot on the Thinkers 50 for 2011.…
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Stakeholder engagement drivers – Part 3: enlightened self-interest
The first part of this series of blogs outlined three three drivers for stakeholder engagement, self-interest, enlightened self-interest and altruism. In this blog we will look at enlightened self-interest using Walmart for illustration. Such companies want to make money and be more sustainable. They attempt to operate in ways that are not just financially sustainable,…
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Stakeholder engagement pays!
This blog positions stakeholder engagement at the leading edge of sustainability and also, as a core process underpinning a superior business model is transforming older, extractive and exploitative models. However, it is also great to have evidence that stakeholder engagement supports financial sustainability in addition to environmental and social sustainability. Witold Henisz led a major…
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Stakeholder engagement is a core sustainability process for Ceres
Ceres, the pioneering sustainability non-profit organisation positions stakeholder engagement, alongside governance and disclosure as core processes to achieve a sustainable global economy. Ceres was instigated in 1989, making it a pioneer in the world of sustainability. Among its achievements are the development of the Global Reporting Initiative, the Ceres coalition and promoting sustainable investment funds.…
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