A study of global CEOs, released in June, jointly sponsored by Accenture and UN Global Compact, demonstrates that CEOs now see sustainability as crucial to their commercial and strategic success.

Some quotations from Accenture’s summary of the report:

• 93 percent of Global Compact CEOs see sustainability as important to their future success.
• Re-establishing consumer trust is the immediate issue. Seventy-two percent of executives cite “strengthening brand, trust and reputation” as the strongest motivator for taking action on sustainability issues.
• CEOs believe that we are moving toward an era in which businesses will no longer focus purely on profit and loss as the primary means of valuation, but rather take into account also the positive and negative impacts on society and the environment.

The study covered more than 750 CEOs across geographies and industries, with intensive interviews with 50 top global CEOs, according to Accenture.

A fuller summary and a copy of the report is available here https://microsite.accenture.com/sustainability/research_and_insights/Pages/A-New-Era-of-Sustainability.aspx

The list of Interesting Communities of Leadership is at http://lovingwork.org/interesting-communities-of-leadership

Scott is scott@lovingwork.org and @scottdowns3 on Twitter.

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