Finding Your Personal Influencing Platform
For corporate sustainability leadership, purpose and platform go hand in hand: daring to demand bold action, and taking risks and standing for something you believe in despite the potential for backlash. With the rise of the activist CEO, being neutral is
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LEADERSHIP A Swedish Approach to Transforming your Company, your Industry and the World
Henrik Henriksson Elaine Weidman Grunewald
Sustainability Leadership “In today’s uncertain times, the examples of how Swedish business leaders have weathered turbulent times, re-defined their businesses and sought new ways to amplify value for all stakeholders is a precious and timely source of inspiration.” —Lim Boon Heng, Chairman, Temasek “Henrik Henriksson and Elaine Weidman Grunewald have issued a stirring call to action that cannot be ignored. The authors provide a roadmap for how companies can define their purpose and live by it—something we need more than ever in these challenging times. The candid stories of how Swedish CEOs have risen to those challenges is inspiring. I urge every business leader to read this book and share it widely among their teams.” —N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons “Not only do Grunewald and Henriksson demonstrate how sustainability ambitions must be realized through business action, they also show how such business action can be achieved and provide a plan of action for sustainability leadership through concrete and inspirational cases from the Nordics.” —Kristin Skogen Lund, CEO, Schibsted “This book is a treasure chest: It reveals the secrets behind Sweden’s success and how corporations can thrive on sustainability while being part of the solution for the big challenges of our time.” —Georg Kell, Founder, UN Global Compact and Chairman, Arabesque “Sweden is a powerhouse of sustainable industrial transformation. This book describes the management approach behind it. Henrik Henriksson and Elaine Weidman Grunewald invite change- makers in Swedish business to tell their stories. And they tell their own story, not least about Scania, a company that shows how sustainability and profitability can go together. The core message: Global challenges like the climate crisis require clear entrepreneurial values: integrity, responsibility, effectiveness. We have no time to lose!” —Herbert Diess, Chairman of the Board of Management, Volkswagen AG “In this valuable book, Elaine Weidman Grunewald and Henrik Henriksson provide an easy to read, inspiring and practical guide to sustainability leadership. The examples are compelling and show that sustainability is an integral part of the strategy of profitable, successful businesses – and will be even more so going forward.” —Stephanie O’Keefe, CEO, International Women’s Forum
“Sweden has offered the world so many valuable lessons over the years; and this excellent book is the latest contribution - timely and valuable business insight explained with clarity and humility. It reminds us that purposeful leadership is both essential in today’s highly unpredictable, challenging business environment and must be approached with energy, method and expansive imagination. It should be read by every leader who wishes to eschew incrementalism and confront the most pressing of contemporary questions, namely, how to deliver a step-change in sustainable growth, balanc
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