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Get inspired by these three pioneering, sustainable companies

Chartered Management Institute

As a result, a more sustainable, ethical operational approach is now just good business sense; minimising the risks of climate change to the business, meeting stakeholder and investor needs, and increasing consumer appeal. Listicle Looking for top tips, checklists or listed ways to help you along with your management and leadership journey?

Company 52
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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

Farsightedness is essential to effective leadership. Whether you are a start-up or a Procter & Gamble, the ethic of focusing on what you do best and excelling at it is the culture and the identity that sustains an organization’s success. This is a transparent way to reiterate the organization’s purpose, its strategy, and culture.

Company 177
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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

Its strategy to get out ahead of the competition rested on the innovative, hard, vacuum-sealed packaging its then-parent company, Jacob Suchard, was using in Europe at the time. That’s when the brand shifted its strategy, once again, and developed the long-standing “Better Beans. Better Coffee” positioning.

Brand 100
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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.