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For todayâs exercise, assess whether your company is ready to make the necessary transitions for sustainable business.
Sustainability isnât a cause where any one individual or organization can go it alone. While most leaders seem to acknowledge the importance of engaging all stakeholders and working in systems, not everyone is ready to make the transition.
To evaluate where your organization is with respect to multi-stakeholder co-ownership, rank each of the following points on a 1-4 scale with four being advanced, and 1 representing the beginning stages of transition:
Next, evaluate where your company is in terms of the level of action-orientation, using the same 1-4 scale:Â
Your evaluation of your current practices should provide you with an answer as to whether you are truly invested in multi-stakeholder systemic transition management by engaging in multiple actor sustainability practices that implement niche innovations, lobbying and catalyzing (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Assessing your Sustainability Practices
While your company may have made progress in reducing its own impact on the environment, if you scored low on the above scale is a sign that you may need to revamp your sustainability strategy to work with the many other stakeholders around you.
Further reading:Â
Further Reading: Better together: build effective coalitions for sustainable transitions by Bettina BĂźchelÂ
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