As SustainAbility’s own leadership evolves to the next generation we take the opportunity in the latest edition of Radar to reflect on the leadership agenda, the characteristics of successful leadership, how leadership is expressed, who is leading, who is following and why.

We also take a look at the responsibility of leadership. For a company such as Google, industry leadership brings with it a need to deal with controversial issues and Geoff Lye reflects on what the company needs to do to retain customer trust and sustain the values of its original public service ethos.

Companies such as Cooperative Financial Services, Ford, Gap and Novo Nordisk all have leadership ambitions, at least as far as reporting goes. Katie Fry Hester and Matt Loose review what sets top reporters apart, how they stay ahead of the game and what is the cost of maintaining a leadership position in reporting.