The Company is continually designing itself for environmental sustainability, including the recycling of nonrenewable resources, consuming renewable resources at a rate that allows them to regenerate, and limiting the reduction of biodiversity. The company begins with an internal assessment of current business activities using the SFEL criteria under each of the Six Facets. The approach builds a safe and respectful environment for people to inquire, generate purpose and take actions. A new set of questions arises naturally concerning the company's sustainability impact on shareholders, employees, customers, communities and the environment. When purpose is grounded in both the pursuit of increasing shareholder value and taking responsibility for the company s social and environmental actions, a transformation occurs in the organization's capacity to innovate and produce results.
Leadership becomes centered on enduring shared values.
This leads to an organizational context in which innovation and creativity produce profit breakthroughs consistent with an ethical conduct of business. Change Competency 5. Effective facilitated dialogue allows a group to become extraordinarily powerful in accomplishing desired business results. The group is able to explore possibilities and develop commitments that the participants would be incapable of individually. This is because creativity and innovation arise from the actions and interactions of many agents something that systems scientists and biologists have long known to be true of the evolution of living systems.