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How do you prioritize corporate social responsibility issues?
Let's contemplate this question: can you name any CSR programs that ARE contributing something of worth? They are few and far between. Absolutely, partnering with relevant stakeholders is important. But too many organisations want to control those conversations & outcomes (to the detriment of what they could do). Absolutely, aligning efforts with strategy is important. But too few CSR practitioners truly know what strategy is (clue: it's not about wishlists). So why do the efforts fail? Implementation of programs is a problem. Strategy needs to have the right "fit" with culture, systems, structure, resources, & staff capability (including practitioners). And winning over leaders is critical. Don't rely just on facts; use stories.
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What a fantastic post(s) to think about!
What a fantastic post(s) to think about!
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𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 What on earth does that mean? Well, if values are the things that are most…
𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 What on earth does that mean? Well, if values are the things that are most…
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"Three crises face our cities, each of them urgent and already destructive," writes The Better Cities Initiative founder Elizabeth Farrelly. Read…
"Three crises face our cities, each of them urgent and already destructive," writes The Better Cities Initiative founder Elizabeth Farrelly. Read…
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Should you stay or should you go? How leaders can know if a company is aligned with their values.
Arabian Business Review
See publicationهناك عدة قضايا عالمية لعبت دور المحفز للقوى العاملة التي تسعى لتحقيق المزيد من حياتها وتتوقع أكثر من المنظمات. قضايا مثل الجائحة، تغير المناخ، والفرص العادلة للجميع تتصدر القائمة. يسعى الكثيرون للحصول على مزيد من المعنى من عملهم ومن الحياة بشكل عام.
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What we need from leaders in the 21st century
World Financial Review
See publicationIn the face of interconnected challenges and opportunities, leadership is in crisis. Our centuries-old leadership styles are failing, unable to adapt to the frenetic speed of change. Instead, we need a society embedded with leaders who are more collective and holistic in their thinking and behaviour.
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Normal has left the building: 5 ways leaders can handle volatility
The Big Think
See publicationThe old certainties of “business as usual” have been crushed by disruption — here’s a strategy for resilience.
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A maelstrom of interconnected economic, social, environmental, and technological elements is currently challenging leaders. More than half (52%) of the companies on the Fortune 500 list in 2003 no longer exist today. Five core strategies can help leaders become resilient at a time of great volatility. -
3 reasons the leadership skills you learned in business school are holding you back
Fast Company
See publicationThe author of ‘Confronting the Storm’ insists that old ways of solving problems in business have to be unlearned.
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Volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous: The new world facing civil engineers
Civil Engineering
See publicationInternational business strategist David Ross says the world has recently become a more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous place. Facing these "VUCA" challenges will require civil engineers to become more curious, compassionate, and collaborative.
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Managing stakeholder outrage in an age of distrust
Indvstrvs
See publicationTime and again, organizations are being caught unwittingly like spooked deer in the proverbial headlights of increasingly sophisticated and cynical stakeholders. But it doesn’t have to be this way. A more strategic, collaborative approach to good community relations can be taken that is kind to the bottom line…
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Leadership beyond the great pause: Climate change and other wicked problems
Journal of Futures Studies
See publicationMany business leaders now understand that their current management structures and leadership styles are not up to the challenge of successfully leading their organisations in a VUCA world… and our climate crisis guarantees a VUCA world for the foreseeable future. Yet, they do not know how to successfully deal with our climate crisis. They have never faced a situation like this before. There is no precedent or roadmap. Having excelled historically at solving linear-style problems, they want to…
Many business leaders now understand that their current management structures and leadership styles are not up to the challenge of successfully leading their organisations in a VUCA world… and our climate crisis guarantees a VUCA world for the foreseeable future. Yet, they do not know how to successfully deal with our climate crisis. They have never faced a situation like this before. There is no precedent or roadmap. Having excelled historically at solving linear-style problems, they want to know what to do to not only survive, but to thrive, in this new abnormal, full of wicked problems like climate change.
A different form of leadership is required, one that is more agile, ambidextrous, and flexible. The application of futures thinking within organisations is a vital skill in accomplishing this, individually and cultural. The article applies scenarios developed for a covid world by Milojević and Inayatullah (2021) to a world that must confront climate change and other wicked problems. These scenarios are then interrogated to identify the benefits to leaders of unearthing the narratives that leaders and their organisations are unwittingly bound by.
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Gold: Rising to the Moment category
Nautilus Book Awards (US)
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Gold: Winner in Business, Leadership & Sustainability categories
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Royal Society for the Encouragement for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
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The Professor Wanbil Lee Prize for Ethical Leaders in Business
University of New South Wales
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Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management
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