MANAGEMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
What is the Relationship Between Sustainability and Management?
Management builds sustainability into the organizational mission, strategy, and culture, and equitably develops human capital to achieve business goals.
Sustainability is quickly becoming THE leadership competency of the 21st century with its emphasis on inclusion, systems thinking, collaborative cultures, and an entrepreneurship spirit.
“Most importantly,” Indra Nooyi, the former CEO who started PepsiCo’s Performance with Purpose strategy has said, “we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.”
Therefore, sustainability is not just a call to pay attention to grand challenges like climate change and inequality–it’s a call to create the kinds of organizations that can do something about them. That’s leadership and management!
Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, speaks about leadership for sustainability at the SDG Business Forum
Why Sustainability Needs Management
Sustainability can be understood as the largest change management exercise in human history. Virtually every human institution and industry needs to be reimagined so that humanity can thrive on a planet with finite resources, a changing climate, and a growing population.
Fortunately, we have management! The field of management has been studying and practicing change management for decades. We know how to do this and management can lead the way.
In short, sustainability management is important because that’s what the world needs. But it’s also important because that is what organizations need. Purpose-driven companies that integrate sustainability and impact in their core consistently outperform their counterparts.
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