9. Systems, Decision Making, and Internal Alignment

After you have the employees engaged and trained, you need to prioritize your actions, build your systems, and develop your decision-making processes and policies to sustain momentum for the long term.

Prioritize Your Actions

Develop an implementation plan that targets those areas that have the greatest sustainability impact and prioritize by opportunity for improvement and business benefit.

If we all arranged and clarified our work around this principle, and cut out everything else, companies could see vastly improved social, environmental, and financial performance.

Then after you have prioritized those focus areas, put people in charge who are highly motivated with the skills to get the ...

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