Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Why arrogant, top-down sustainability-leadership is on the way out

Excerpted from the Guardian, written by Dr Jem Bendell, professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria:

"Instead of a focus on heroes with great traits, to develop sustainability leadership we should enhance our understanding of how to develop leaderful groups, where senior role holders act as hosts not heroes, and enable leadership to emerge from within the group. It means insights on group facilitation, group dynamics, system change and personal mindfulness...."

The whole thing is at

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/dec/02/obsession-heroic-sustainability-leader-leave-us-disappointed

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