December Responsible Leadership Newsletter
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17 Dec
2010
The Responsible Leadership Team hope you have a very enjoyable festive season that brings you all you wish for leading in to a prosperous and successful 2011. Find some interesting links for reading about leadership and in particular Responsible Leadership over the break below... We are also negotiating with leaders about further discussions of Irresponsible Leadership and where leadership has gone wrong into 2011... Stay tuned. If you are looking for ways to be GOOD and support projects and charities needing help that have been recommended by our network click 
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17 Dec
2010
Positions Available - Looking for a NEW Initiative - Business Partnership Roles
Looking for a change into 2011?
Total Executive have two roles available for people in Business Partnership and Development Roles.
One position focusses on Development of People.
The other focusses on Communications Development.
Both positions are under contract.
To discuss further and receive a full position description, please contact our founder Grant Crossley here
You can also contact Grant directly on +61 408 844 009.
17 Dec
2010
Going green! Grow your business!
The vast majority of CEOs believe that sustainability issues will be critical to the future success of their business, and they want investors to more accurately value sustainability in their long-term investments, according to a new survey by Accenture and the UN Global Compact.
The survey involved 766 CEOs and top executives, including face-to-face interviews with over 50 of the world's foremost business executives.
This new research found that:
- 93 percent of the CEOs polled believe that sustainability issues will be critical to the future success of their business.
- 86 percent want investors to better price sustainability issues into valuations.
- CEOs are addressing sustainability issues in new ways. For instance, 58 percent of survey respondents cited the consumer among their most important stakeholders, even above employees (45 percent) and governments (39 percent).
- 91 percent of those polled said that their company would be employing new technologies and innovation to help meet sustainability goals over the next five years.
- Partnerships and collaboration are increasingly important. 78 percent of survey respondents feel that companies should engage in industry collaborations and multi-stakeholder partnerships to address sustainability goals.
In 2006, the UN launched the Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative (PRI), a $20 trillion effort developed to persuade mainstream investors to better integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into valuations and investment processes. At a major UN Summit in New York City last week, Donald MacDonald, PRI Chairman urged investors to 'push further' despite recent progress.
"Time and again investors have seen how ESG issues can affect investment performance and there is now a critical mass of institutional investors who know that good management of these issues is an important factor in for the long-term financial success of their investments. I expect the next decade to be an age of responsibility for capital markets," he said.
"If a company has poor corporate governance or persists with bad environmental management then it can, and should, affect the long-term valuation of the company. The truth is that's still a relatively new concept for many investors, but there are now leaders in mainstream markets that have developed the tools and models to integrate sustainability and who can push the global capital markets beyond the tipping point on sustainability."
The 60-page report, titled A New Era of Sustainability, is available here.
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15 Dec
2010
The end of corporate social responsibility?
Looking back on the GFC Impact...
Do you believe this remains true?
15 Dec
2010
Did the GFC end the road for men?
Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women's progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn't the end point? What if modern, post industrial society is simply better suited to women? The Atlantic recently published a thought-provoking report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way- and its vast cultural consequences.
The global financial crisis and years of economic pain are at least in part due to unbalanced corporate cultures and too many men making decisions, according to the article. That combined with years of women doing better at school and university may be a tipping point for many companies: in this gloomy global economy, companies simply cannot afford to shun their brightest talent, which increasingly are women.
Commenting on the article, blogger Tony Featherstone wrote "in Australia, we've seen the number of women on boards of top 200 companies reach almost 10% - still far too low, but progress all the same…Many more women are starting small businesses in Australia, which bodes well for more female entrepreneurs. And we have our first female Prime Minister, at least for now.
"It's not nearly enough, but change is occurring faster than many realise."
Some key facts from The Atlantic:
- Many more US couples are choosing to have girls over boys.
- Men have lost six out of eight million jobs in the US post the GFC.
- Worst hit are male-dominated sectors, such as finance, construction and manufacturing.
- Men dominate just two of 15 industries projected to grow the most over the next decade.
- Three women will receive a bachelor degree in the US this year for every two men.
- Women in the US now earn 60% of all masters degrees and 42% of MBAs.
- The gap between women and men at US universities is becoming so wide that some observers predict a university "gender-gap" crisis.
- More support groups are being formed in the US to help out-of-work, disaffected males.
- More women in India are learning English than men.
- Women own more than 40% of all private enterprises in China.
Better school marks and more women at universities are creating tangible results for companies, and as The Atlantic reports: "The association is clear: innovative, successful firms are the ones that promote women."
And countries that have more women in power experience greater economic success, according to a 2006 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development study.
At the same time, more questions are being asked about whether the lack of women in senior positions in the finance industry contributed to the GFC…read more from Tony Featherstone or read The Atlantic essay here.
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