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Bad Sustainability Writing Is Everywhere, and It’s a Problem
MARKETING AND COMMS - The proliferation of ineffective communications is holding sustainability back in its most critical decade. There is no more time for boring, beige writing. We need language that teaches, convinces and inspires — before it’s too late.
Digging Deeper Into Marketing’s Purpose Pivot
MARKETING AND COMMS - Once your purpose is in everything you do, it becomes an indelible part of the customer experience. By attracting customers who believe society is better off if they do business with your company, you can create a social movement around your brand.
Purpose Governance: A New Role for Boards
LEADERSHIP - Boards and the executives and advisors they hire need to be proficient in Purpose Governance, which will put their organizations on a viable path that creates value for the company and the society on which it depends.
Governance in the New Decade: The Rise and Rise of Boardroom ESG
LEADERSHIP - ESG governance is now an established imperative for boards; and a new report sheds light on steps companies should pursue to ensure the long-term viability of their organizations.
Why a Solutions-Focused Mindset Is Essential for Creating a Sustainable Future
LEADERSHIP - Rather than dwelling on problems, a solutions-centered focus — within individuals, organizations, governments, etc — naturally leads to breaking negative feedback loops, feelings of hopelessness, and cycles of redundant and unproductive work.
Incomplete Risk Formulas Are Risky Business
NEW METRICS - Even a broken clock is right twice a day. But standard formulas for calculating risk leave out critical factors — such as vulnerability and submerged risks — that would more holistically and accurately assess risk. A new model addresses this.
The Social Ripple Effect: The Reach of Business Decisions in the Time of COVID-19
LEADERSHIP - Organizations will be defined by the decisions they make during the pandemic. Now, companies with a social purpose — or those which aspire to have one — have a tool that can inform their day-to-day decisions in ways that build and sustain a better society.
How to Fix Foresight in This ‘New Normal’
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - COVID-19 has fragmented the future. Your best-laid plans may lie broken. But it is possible to bring order to a world of multiple, uncertain futures; and lay the groundwork for the reset we need.
From CSR to Social Purpose in the New ‘Roaring Twenties’
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - In the 1920s, people didn’t pay attention to the problems brought on by market excess — and that decade begat the Great Depression. Today, truly modern companies are showing the way to a different kind of decade.
Inside the 2019 CSR Risk and Performance Index: Regional and Sector Comparisons
WALKING THE TALK - Despite overall sustainability performance remaining mostly steady, EcoVadis’ latest CSR Risk and Performance Index shows significant differences between regions and industries.
Forum for the Future: Building Collaboration at the Intersection of Vision and Action
COLLABORATION - CEO Dr. Sally Uren has a realistic understanding of collaborations and shares how combining forces is the way forward.
Neil Gaught: Turning Aspiration Into Action
LEADERSHIP - With his award-winning book, Core, Gaught has bolstered the case for a radical rethink of the purpose of business by proving change is not only desirable but entirely possible.
Q&A: Simon Mainwaring on Teaching Companies to ‘Live to Serve Life Itself’
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - Simon Mainwaring has an “all-hands-on-deck” sense of purpose — and that purpose is to help us find ours.
A Four-Step Cycle for Strengthening Your Company Culture
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - Strengthening a culture is not a one-off project; it is truly never-ending.
11 Criteria for Defining, Refining Your Company’s Social Purpose Statement
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - When a statement is too generic, it can be challenging for employees to connect to it and for the entire organization to be galvanized by that social purpose.
Corporate Giants’ Suppliers Have Saved $19.3B by Reducing CO2
BUSINESS CASE - CDP says 10 years of corporates requesting supplier transparency has triggered a step-change in environmental action.
Chipotle, FoodBytes! Unveil Newest Classes of Food, Ag Innovators
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Two startup accelerators highlight the latest startup solutions poised to disrupt our food system for good.
The Future-Fit Business Benchmark: How Do I Start?
NEW METRICS - Look at it as a tool with which to solve the underlying puzzles posed by the sustainability challenge.
ERM Announces Acquisition of SustainAbility Ltd
COLLABORATION - The second in a series of acquisitions by ERM aimed at building the world’s leading sustainability advisory services
Utopies: Localizing the Sustainable Economy
COLLABORATION - This is one of a series of interviews by students and alumni from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) with practitioners from the Sustainable Brands community, on a variety of ways organizations can, and are, Redesigning the Good Life.
