After the competencies of Relationship Building and Systems Thinking,
we close with the third and most important competency which is the Mindset for Sustainability.
Sustainable leaders have a strong interior sense of purpose that grows into a sense of
purpose and mission for their organization.
That’s why we have spent so much time together developing your personal charter.
You identified your mission (why do you exist?) and your legacy (what do you want to build
and leave behind?).
Mission and legacy are elements of your purpose.
Sustainable leaders are oriented towards the long term.
They feel an inherent motivation to meet the ‘triple bottom line’ of financial,
social and environmental performance or ‘people, planet and profit’.
We summarize all these aspects under the header of ‘sustainability mindset’.
The core of the sustainability mindset is to move from the ‘me’ (i.e.
promoting one’s own interests) to the ‘we’ (do what’s good for all major stakeholders).