{"id":3803,"date":"2011-06-15T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:39:18","slug":"executing-your-sustainability-strategy-three-critical-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/executing-your-sustainability-strategy-three-critical-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Executing Your Sustainability Strategy: Three Critical Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/author\/kathymiller\/\" target=\"_blank\">By Kathy Miller, CEO &amp; Owner, Miller Consultants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So you have completed your corporate sustainability strategy. Now what? Will your company take a collective deep breath and jump into execution? If you are like many other well-meaning companies, you will find that the presentation of the strategy is less than half the battle.\u00a0 Once the strategy is complete, the challenge becomes how to implement a line of attack that is flexible enough to adjust to the constantly evolving sustainability environment.<\/p>\n<p>An organizational climate conducive to delivering a sound sustainability strategy isn\u2019t necessarily the same as the one that enables it to succeed.\u00a0 On the one hand, strategy development tends to be a dispassionate exercise carried out by a few top leaders. It relies on clear-headed and logical analysis of data and context. On the other hand, execution of that strategy depends on a much broader base of support for hitting targets that don\u2019t stand still. It is rooted in the messy reality of attitudes, perceptions, and mental set towards the way things get done. No wonder companies continue to struggle with the enormous challenge of closing the gap between their carefully crafted plans and actually implementing them.<\/p>\n<p>How can you ensure that your organization is up to the task? For starters, take the following three critical steps to create the right climate for success:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Communicate the expectation that everyone should challenge the status quo<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Encourage and reward innovation<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0Allow intelligent failures and learn from them<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2011\/06\/15\/executing-your-sustainability-strategy-three-critical-steps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete article at Environmental Leader<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kathy Miller, CEO &amp; Owner, Miller Consultants So you have completed your corporate sustainability strategy. Now what? Will your company take a collective deep breath and jump into execution? If you are like many other well-meaning companies, you will find that the presentation of the strategy is less than half the battle.\u00a0 Once the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/executing-your-sustainability-strategy-three-critical-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Executing Your Sustainability Strategy: Three Critical Steps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}