As I write from the World Economic Forum, having attended an event with some of the UN leadership and CEOs from various sectors, I’m further reminded of the growing prominence of sustainability issues in both core business strategy and mainstream geo-politics. This was was barely thinkable even five years ago.
As I reflect on this, five themes emerged for me from my Davos conversations that are consistent with what I’m hearing from clients. They also seem to fit well with Davos’s own core theme as business leaders consider their own contribution to “Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild”. These five themes take us from ensuring the global stability and legitimacy of capitalism through to the imperative of execution.
The event today was organized by the United Nations Global Compact, a vehicle set up by Kofi Annan to work with the private sector on the UN’s sustainable-development goals, launched here at Davos in 2000.
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