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Sustainability should be in everyone’s job description. We have heard it before. But what on earth does that really mean? If you want to embed sustainability into a company, take a systems approach working through the existing competency model.
It appears that The Co-operators, the largest Canadian-owned insurance provider, has figured out a systems approach to embedding sustainability into everyone’s job. It might help that they are a co-operative, owned and managed by its members. In 2011 The Co-operators was ranked as the #1 “Corporate Citizen” by Corporate Knights, which rates Canada’s largest companies on their sustainability performance.