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" 'Leadership for Sustainability' is dedicated to the memory of Anita
Roddick - and she would have loved the overarching theme that we must
now move faster with the implementation of today's organisational
change agenda and, at the same time, work out how to disrupt our
economic and business models to reboot capitalism for the 21st century."
John Elkington, Executive Chairman, Volans; co-founder, Environmental
Data Services (ENDS) and SustainAbility
" 'Leadership for Sustainability' opens a fascinating window ...
Highly recommended!"
Otto Scharmer, author, "Theory U"; Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Founding Chair, Presencing Institute
"This is a must-read for those who hope, and want to translate hope
into action."
Dexter Dunphy, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Business, University of
Technology Sydney
"These are front-line stories from the battle to save the planet."
Tessa Tennant, Innovator in Sustainable Finance
"This happy fusion of learning and sustainability ... is critical for
achieving the transition from our unsustainable world to an equitable
and sustainable future."
Dr Sally Uren, Deputy Chief Executive, Forum for the Future
"I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning how to lead
sustainability initiatives."
Bob Doppelt, Executive Director, The Resource Innovation Group
"This book shows how a diverse range of people are already leading
change. Their stories are a very human testimony that change is not
just needed but is also possible."
Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business, Marks & Spencer
"Chapter after wonderful chapter ... we see the fruits of being honest
about our interdependence ... We may look forward to the next volume."
Hilary Bradbury Huang, PhD, journal editor-in-chief, "Action
Research"; Professor, Division of Management, Oregon Health & Science
University, USA
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Leadership for Sustainability:
An Action Research Approach
Judi Marshall, Gill Coleman and Peter Reason
262+x pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback
ISBN 978-1-906093-59-4 | April 2011
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This book focuses on what it means to take up leadership for
sustainability, from a variety of organisational and social positions,
and considers the consequences of different strategies and practices
for influencing change. Whatever form it takes, organisational
sustainability programmes need committed, intelligent, reflective
leadership at all levels to make them work. The examples in this book
show how people in very different contexts have seized the
opportunities open to them and acted with courage and initiative to
make a difference.
This book will be relevant to a wide range of people, including
managers, consultants and others in commercial, non-profit, public and
intergovernmental organisations who want to contribute to the
development of a sustainable world. It will be of particular interest
to people working in organisations already thinking about issues of
sustainability and those who are seeking to take on the role of change
agents in organisations or communities.
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At the heart of this book are stories from 29 people who are seeking
to make the world more environmentally sustainable and socially just.
They report their purposes, journeys, impacts, learning and
disappointments. Their accounts are diverse and from many different
worlds, ranging from fast moving consumer goods to international
forestry and conservation projects. They have in common that they are
among the 254 graduates of an innovative Master's programme, the MSc
in Responsibility and Business Practice community, who in one way or
another are adopting action research as a practice of taking
leadership for sustainability, and believe their actions can be
significant contributions to the causes that matter to them.
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CONTENTS
1 Taking up the challenge
2 Educating for inquiring practice in sustainability
3 Ideas and practices
4 Promoting alternative questioning, policies and practices in
mainstream organisations
5 Establishing sustainability practices in organisations and industries
6 Paying attention to everyday practices of sustainable living
7 Seeking to shift systemic rules and awareness
8 Connecting up stakeholders for more sustainable outcomes
9 Itinerant change agents to professions and sectors
10 Working through community and society
11 Working with young people
12 Reflections
Bibliography
Index
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