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Interview

Peace as a Business Precondition: The UN Global Compact on What CEOs Now Face

Sanda Ojiambo explains why the Global Compact treats peace as the ground business stands on, how the membership has grown since 2000, and what its survey of nearly
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The Impact Study, Previewed for the Page Society

The 2023 findings on humanized growth, with a closing section on how the chief communications officer's role expands under them.
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Marathon Learning: Driving Sustained Business Growth

The Impact Study executive summary prepared for TCS, setting out the five drivers of humanized growth and what follows from them.
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Increasing CMO Influence Through Humanized Growth

The Impact Study executive summary for CMOs, reading each driver of humanized growth as an opening for the marketing leader.
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Five Drivers of Humanized Growth, and the Leader Profile Behind Them

The Q4 2023 partner preview of the IRG Impact Study: the pressures on the C-suite, the gaps between overperformers and everyone else, and the da Vinci humanized growth
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Five Drivers of Humanized Growth, and the Gaps Behind Each One

A partner preview of the IRG Impact Study, reporting the differences between over and under performers on stakeholder understanding, purpose, strategy, interdependence and leadership.
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Five Drivers of Humanized Growth: The C-Suite Summary

The C-suite executive summary of the Impact Study: what separates organizations practicing Humanized Growth from their counterparts, in five drivers.
Interview

Why Growth and Sustainability Are Not Opposites

Marc de Swaan Arons argues that growth is only in conflict with sustainability while it is defined for one stakeholder. Redefined across all of them, and measured on
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What the Stakeholder Impact Study Set Out to Test

The design document behind Achieving Stakeholder Impact: the business context, ten stated beliefs, and twenty-two hypotheses about what overperforming businesses do.