From the course: Navigating Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Leaders

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Focus on your organization’s special assets and powers

Focus on your organization’s special assets and powers

From the course: Navigating Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Leaders

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Focus on your organization’s special assets and powers

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- And I firmly believe that no matter what type of institution or organization that you're part of, there is a single, simple jumping off point for everybody to begin their sustainability journey. And it's so critical that we all start in the same place. And that place is the organization's mission statement. That is the level that the conversation around sustainability needs to happen at. How do we integrate sustainability into the core mission statement and objective of the organization that we're working within or running? And when you take that approach, it delivers two benefits. First, it elevates sustainability to the level of importance that it needs to be considered at. And second, it then naturally brings all of the elements of the organization together in a way that's already been predefined for you. It's the structure of your organization and you're simply deploying that structure against a new outcome. And the…

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