What skills do leadership teams need to create planet-positive impact? The first is agility. That’s about process, governance and making sure that enablers are in place to help create rapid change. Too many great ideas fail at the start because organisations have too many barriers associated with processes and ways of working.
The importance and value of having an organisational culture that is flexible to the demands of the modern world is often key to commercial success.
What's not often discussed is the importance of agility when driving action on environmental and social commitments. We all want to get to net zero, but the path there is going to be anything but linear.
In this new report from a variety of forward thinking organisations, Jonah Grunsell - Managing Partner at Xynteo, discusses how business can better incorporate sustainability into its core strategy, the steps needed internally to drive change, and the importance of collaborationg with other organisations to achieve impact.
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Produced in conjunction with The Times and Raconteur, this new report discusses a range of agile topics with view points from businesses across a range of sectors.
In addition to Jonah Grunsell's discussion of agile ways of delivering successful net zero impact, read the full report to get new inspriation and insight on:
- Lessons to take from Amazon's 'spaghetti at the wall' approach
- Agility in the renaissance of executive coaching
- What Skunk Works can teach us about extreme innovation
- 5 ways to master agile collaboration
- An agile supply chain relies on communication, openness and trust
- How best practice agility benefits both corporations and professionals
- And more
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One common mistake is businesses don't integrate Net Zero strategy into their core corporate strategy. With sustainability, you must weave it into everything that you do, and every pillar of your strategy must have a sustainability lens to create a direct link between your planet-positive commitments and the operational levers needed to realise them.
Jonah Grunsell
Managing Partner, Xynteo
Larger organisations tend to be hierarchical and fail to delegate when it comes to who is responsible for driving ecosystem change, while junior staff don’t feel empowered to act. Implementing change is only possible by thinking beyond the C-Suite.
Jonah Grunsell
Managing Partner, Xynteo
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