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The Importance of a Chief Sustainability Officer

N2Growth Blog

Operational Refinement: Oversee operations to minimize waste, boost efficiency, and ensure ethical sourcing in the supply chain. Finance: In the finance department, the CSO collaborates to create budgets that support sustainability initiatives and assess the financial impact of green investments.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Base Budgets on Value… Not on Cost. 7 Steps Toward Getting Your Budgets Accepted More Readily: Commitment toward strategic planning for your function-department-company. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Human resources development. Get to the front of the line for funding requests. Know your values.

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The Nuts & Bolts of the One-Page Strategic Plan

LDRLB

The strategic plan is not the annual budget. Limit this to 4 or 5 existing traits and/or articulate the cultural goals that will inspire and engage the company’s human resource. LeaderLab is partnering with organizational scholars to gather research on the importance of building ethical climates.

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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. Several years ago, we realized that specialized positioning and communications are necessary for social harmony and a global economy.

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The Big Picture of Business: Goal Setting… An Important Part of Strategic Planning.

Strategy Driven

Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Human resources development. 7 Measurements of Successful Budgeting and Planning: The business you’re in. You’re highly dedicated, talented, resourceful and give customers what they cannot really get elsewhere. How to Find Goals: Examine problems.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Each product-service is budgeted. Cash flow, forecasting and budgeting are consistently monitored. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Cost containment is one (but not the only) factor of company operations.

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The Big Picture of Business – Biggest Excuses They Use… and You Should Avoid: Rationales and Reasons Why Businesses Fail

Strategy Driven

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Our human resources department takes care of that. We’re too worried about __ (some item in the news… the latest source of gossip). Interest rates are too high. Our lawyer can take care of any problems that arise. Until then, it’s business as usual.