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Assignment:
Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever, challenges business leaders to ask themselves if they care about the world's problems - and if they do, how far are they willing to push their companies to help solve them?
HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius sat down with Polman, whose new book is Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive By Giving More than They TakeLinks to an external site., in the fourth episode of our new video series "The New World of Work," to talk about:
- How leaders can drive ambitious sustainability agendas
- The importance of corporate transparency in building trust
- How employees can force change from within, as customers and society apply pressure from without
After watching the video and reading the article,
After reading the article and watching the video, reflect on the following statement, aiming for sustainability is not enough, Polman says.
"Companies are starting to understand that you need to be restorative, reparative, regenerative." Reflect on the following statement "If a goal is not making you uncomfortable, it's not aggressive enough."
Make sure in your answer you provide an example to support your perspective. What does this mean to you?