Your organization’s senior leaders [6] should set directions [8] and create a customer focus [2], clear and visible values, and high expectations. The directions [8], values, and expectations should balance the needs of all your stakeholders [4], [5], [9], [10], [11], [14]. Your leaders [6] should ensure the creation of strategies [8], systems, and methods for achieving performance [15] excellence, stimulating innovation [3], building knowledge and capabilities, and ensuring organizational sustainability [1]. The defined values and strategies [8] should help guide all of your organization’s activities and decisions. Senior leaders [6] should inspire and encourage your entire workforce [5] to contribute, to develop and learn, to be innovative [3], and to embrace change [13]. Senior leaders [6] should be responsible to your organization’s governance body for their actions and performance [15]. The governance body should be responsible ultimately to all your stakeholders [4], [5], [9], [10], [11], [14], for the ethics, actions, and performance [15] of your organization and its senior leaders [6].

Senior leaders [6] should serve as role models through their ethical behavior and their personal involvement in planning [8], communicating, coaching the workforce [5], developing future leaders [7], reviewing organizational performance [15], and recognizing members of your workforce [5]. As role models, they can reinforce ethics, values, and expectations while building leadership, commitment [12], and initiative throughout your organization.

Creating a sustainable [1] organization requires understanding the short- and longer-term factors [8] that affect your organization and marketplace [2]. The pursuit of sustainable growth [1] and sustained [1] performance [15] leadership [16] requires a strong future orientation and a willingness to make long-term commitments [12] to key stakeholders [4], [5], [9], [10], [11], [14]—your customers [2], workforce [5], suppliers [9], partners [10], and stockholders [11]; the public [14]; and your community [4].

Your organization’s planning [8] should anticipate many factors, such as customers’ expectations [2], new business and partnering [10] opportunities, workforce development [5] and hiring needs [5], the increasingly global marketplace [2], technological developments, changes [13] in customer and market segments [2], new business models, evolving regulatory requirements, changes in community and societal expectations and needs [4], and strategic moves [8] by competitors. Strategic objectives [8] and resource allocations need to accommodate these influences. A focus on the future includes developing your leaders [7], workforce [5], and suppliers [9]; accomplishing effective succession planning [7]; creating opportunities for innovation [3]; and anticipating societal responsibilities and concerns [4].

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