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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

In “The 8 Th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness,” published in 2004, Covey identified the “industrial age paradigm” – in which controlling, extracting, and exchanging “things” is de rigueur – as the fundamental “problem.” Global businesses should apply this foundational principle to the private enterprises that public authorities charter.

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Dignity First: Executive, Enterprise & Economic Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Most recently, Andrew Winston and former Unilever CEO Paul Polman’s “Net-Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take,” serves as a rallying cry for corporate social responsibility rooted in stakeholder primacy.