Corporate sustainability has evolved in recent decades: what began as an ethical duty to “do the right thing” has become a strategic imperative for companies to thrive in a rapidly becoming world. The importance of corporate sustainability continues to evolve, as evidenced by the ongoing debate about shareholder capitalism against shareholders in the United States. As the strength and influence of companies has increased, the public interest in their activities and their role in society has increased. The concept and practice of corporate sustainability are influenced through the express history and political and social context of the countries where corporations are headquartered. Value systems, legal needs and cultural personal tastes vary significantly from country to country and region to region, despite the developing interdependencies of our fashion world. However, there are no unusual features, that go beyond those differences and there is much to be informed of from s mart practice elsewhere.
An upcoming eeeebook via Henriksson, Scania CEO, and Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, long-term sustainskill veteran and founder of the AI Sustainskill Center, Sustainskill Leadership: A Swedish Approach to Transforming your Company, your Industry and the World, at the opportune moment and a very revealing contribution. The eeeebook shows how Swedish executives came to the forefront of corporate sustainability skills here, persevering in their confidence in sustainable skills issues more than ever. Through candid testimonials from more than a dozen CEOs, from startups to multinationals and across multiple industries, the eeeebook is the best insider look at why Swedish corporations enjoy wonderful trust and why they are successful in all over the world, despite a small domestic market. But the eeeebook is also provocative, today’s leaders bold to raise their point of ambition and capture their strength and platforms as individual leaders to make a dent in the hugely demanding situations they face. facing other people and the planet. While the skill for corporate sustainability is described in control jargon or even misinterpreted as philanthropy, the authors convincingly demonstrate that it is a leadership imperative founded on deep trust in dating each other. the favorable courtship between companies and society and their dependence on the fitness of the planet. Drawing on facts from meteorological science and a willingness to interpret broader global trends, the authors note that the hallmark of leadership is the ability to seek answers that generate a price for business and society “through minimizing the negative that it has an effect on the business and maximizing its positive social effect on. Environmental and economic arrangement has an effect on as long as it creates a long-term price for all concerned ”. This deep understanding of the role of business in society transcends the narrow legal interpretations that also characterize the debate on shareholder capitalism.
The life stories brought by the eBook in combination with a representative pattern of Swedish executives and experts in sustainable progression reveal the importance of purpose, leadership and values. The e-book demonstrates that sustainability and profitability go hand in hand and also provides practical recommendations to executives on how to integrate sustainability into strategy and operations The three-phase leadership style presented through authors is persuasive, either in its breadth and depth, but also in its simplicity :
The e-book is a treasure trove of examples, which establishes open strategies, operational knowledge and non-public motivations. It also offers an in-depth immersion in the moral facets of digitization and synthetic intelligence and the role of business leaders as public defenders. As the world struggles today since Covid-019 and to build more resilient and future-appropriate organizations as it prepares for the already grim climate crisis, it is to be expected that the wisdom this eBook provides will motivate many corporations around the world. to take a closer look at the way Sweden’s things are done. There is no doubt that if Swedish technique were more widely imitated, we would live in a more inclusive, healthier and happier world.
I am president of Arabesque, a quantitative fund manager ESG quantitative self-learning models and great knowledge to assess the functionality and sustainability of
I am president of Arabesque, an ESG quantitative fund manager that uses quantitative self-learning and knowledge models to assess the functionality and sustainability of globally indexed corporations. I am the founding director of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary business sustainability initiative with more than 9,000 signatory companies from more than 160 countries, the leading platform for the development, implementation and dissemination of guilty and sustainable corporate policies and practices. I also oversaw the design and launch of UNGC’s sister initiatives, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and Sustainable Scholarships (SSE). I began my career as an engineering researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, then worked as a monetary analyst in african and Asian countries before joining the United States. Nations in 1987. I have a postgraduate degree in economics and engineering fr om the Technical University of Berlin.