Sustainability meets Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Sebastian Straube, Passion driven Sustainability Expert
Copyright by Sebastian Straube
Creativity is the most important leadership quality
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide
Creativity is the most important leadership quality
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide
Creativity is the most important leadership quality
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide
Creativity is the most important leadership quality
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide
Creative Leaders experiment to improve the status quo
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
Creative Leaders experiment to improve the status qup
The next generation of leaders
Source: Inheriting a complex world - Future leaders envision sharing the planet, IBM Institute for Business Value
Students are more focused on sustainability than CEOs
Source: Inheriting a complex world - Future leaders envision sharing the planet, IBM Institute for Business Value
The Biosphere Economy
Nine planetary boundaries
Source: The Biosphere Economy: Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation and growth, Volans
Adapted from: ‘A safe operating space for humanity’, Nature, by Johan Rockström,Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Asa Persson,F. Stuart Chapin et al, September 23, 2009
The Biosphere Economy
Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity
Adapted from ‘The Ecological Power of Nations: The Earth’s Biocapacity as a New Framework for International Cooperation’, Global Footprint Network, 2009.
Source: The Biosphere Economy: Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation and growth, Volans
The Biosphere Economy
Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation & growth
Source: The Biosphere Economy: Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation and growth, Volans
Ecological footprint
Source: http://www.worldmapper.org/
Wealth
Source: http://www.worldmapper.org/
Population growth
Source: http://www.worldmapper.org/
Poverty
Source: http://www.worldmapper.org/
Outlook to 2050 - Population
Source: http://www.worldmapper.org/
Outlook to 2050 – Growth
Source: UN Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision, 2008
Outlook to 2050 – Growth
Source: Goldman Sachs, BRICs and Beyond, 2007
Outlook to 2050 – Growth
Source: World Bank, Global Economic Prospects, 2007
Happiness does not completely depend on GDP
Source: Deutsche Bank Research, Measures of Well-being, 2006
Reconsidering sucess and progress
Source: Deutsche Bank Research, Measures of Well-being, 2006
Value Based Leadership
Source: Responsible Entrepreneurship, EBBF 2009
Post Industrial Economy is based on knowledge & information
Traditional management concepts are no longer responsive to new challenges of globalisation, deregulation, rapid technological change, greater complexity and increasing competition -> increased importance of intangible capital.
Materialistic Leadership Model Value Based Leadership
• High Profile Leader • Dominant objective of goal
achivement • Self-interested & individualistic
outlook • Male model of life • Materialistic perspective
• Collaboration • Social Responsibility • Sustainable Development • Critical Dialoge • Consensus oriented decision making
Sustainability on the business agenda
Which sector has a business case for sustainability?
Source: Sustainability: The Embracers seize advantage, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2011
Organizational benefits of adressing sustainability
Source: Sustainability: The Embracers seize advantage, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2011
CEO’s views on Sustainability
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
CEO’s views on Sustainability
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
Most critical challenges to the future of business
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
Consumers are driving business sustainability
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
Tipping point for embedded sustainability
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
The new agenda for business
Source:WBCSD Vision 2050, 2010
How many Earths do we use in 2050?
Source:Global Footprint Network and WBCSD Vision 2050, 2010
Source:WBCSD Vision 2050, 2010
A sustainable world in 2050
Innovative Leadership for Sustainability
Source: IBM Institute for Business Value analysis, 2008
Let’s get started with business as un-usual!
Nature-Inspired Innovation
Biomimicry, Cradle to Cradle, Natural Capitalism, Blue Economy
Source: The Biosphere Economy: Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation and growth, Volans
Janine Benyus Michael Braungart William McDonough
Paul Hawken Gunter Pauli
Unreasonable Institute
Vision: Accelerate ventures that future generations will remember as having defined progress in our time.
Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/ 50 Fellows
Unreasonable Institute
Giving the World’s Most Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Wings
Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/
Unreasonable Institute
Objectives
• Create effective, internationally scalable solutions to the biggest global challenges of our time.
• Support the international collaboration of the world’s most promising entrepreneurs.
• Educate Unreasonable Fellows in the most innovative principles of entrepreneurship & equip them with integral skills, support, & financing.
• Elicit an international community of the world’s most innovative investors, entrepreneurs and thought leaders… what we like to call the International League of Unreasonables.
• Ensure that Boulder, Colorado is recognized an international hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Work relentlessly and have fun doing it.
Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/
Unreasonable Institute
Financial founding
Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/
Skoll Foundation
Mission: Drive large scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems
Source: http://www.skollfoundation.org/ 70 Fellows
Skoll Foundation
Issues
• Economic and Social Equity benefits all segments of society, not a select few. • Environmental Sustainability is an integral part of long-term economic
development and growth. • Everyone has access to basic Health care. • The Institutional Responsibility of corporate, governmental, and other powerful
interests can be upheld through standards for transparency, citizenship and sustainability.
• Forging cross-cultural understanding and respect for human dignity can lead to Peace and Security.
• Tolerance and Human Rights win over discrimination and persecution.
Source: http://www.skollfoundation.org/
Skoll Foundation
Financial founding
Source: http://www.skollfoundation.org/
Richard Reed, Adam Balon & Jon Wright
Founders, Innocent Drinks
Source: http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/
Innocent Drinks
Business Idea
Source: http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/
Yvon Chouinard
Founder, Patagonia
Source: www.patagonia.com
Patagonia
Patagonia's Mission Statement „Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.”
Source: www.patagonia.com
Patagonia
We use 1% of our sales each year to support environmental work around the world.
Source: www.patagonia.com
Ray Anderson
Founder, Interface
Source: www.interfaceglobal.com
Interface
The Sustainability Journey – Mission Zero: To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits — by 2020 — and in doing so we will become restorative through the power of influence.
Source: www.interfaceglobal.com
Interface
The Sustainability Journey – Mission Zero
We’re now sixteen years into our journey and a decade away from the date we predicted for achieving our vision – 2020. Company-wide commitment to Mission Zero has unleashed innovative thinking and connected us to a higher purpose. We're simultaneously pursuing sustainability along three paths - innovative solutions for reducing our footprint, new ways to design and make products and an inspired and engaged culture.,
Source: www.interfaceglobal.com
Big business going sustainable
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
CEO, Stuart Rose
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
Marks & Spencer - Plan A
Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011
CocaCola - Live Positivly
Source: 2009/2010 Sustainability Review, CocaCola Company
Live Positivly
CocaCola - Live Positivly
Source: 2009/2010 Sustainability Review, CocaCola Company
CocaCola - Live Positivly
Source: 2009/2010 Sustainability Review, CocaCola Company
CocaCola - Live Positivly
Source: 2009/2010 Sustainability Review, CocaCola Company
CocaCola - Live Positivly
Source: 2009/2010 Sustainability Review, CocaCola Company
PepsiCo - Performance with Purpose
Source: 2009 Sustainability Report Overview, Pepsico
PepsiCo - Performance with Purpose
Source: 2009 Sustainability Report Overview, Pepsico
PepsiCo - Performance with Purpose
Source: 2009 Sustainability Report Overview, Pepsico
PepsiCo - Performance with Purpose
Source: 2009 Sustainability Report Overview, Pepsico
PepsiCo - Performance with Purpose
Source: 2009 Sustainability Report Overview, Pepsico
PepsiCo - Refresh Everything
Coca Cola vs. PepsiCo
Bottom of the pyramid innovation
M-Pesa
Nokia Open Studios
D.Light Design
Let’s play entrepreneurship!
Sustainability minded Entrepreneur