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Leadership for Sustainability: Strategies for Tackling Wicked Problems [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, 15 photos, 10 illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Jan-2021
  • Leidėjas: Island Press
  • ISBN-10: 1642831670
  • ISBN-13: 9781642831672
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, 15 photos, 10 illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Jan-2021
  • Leidėjas: Island Press
  • ISBN-10: 1642831670
  • ISBN-13: 9781642831672
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Solving today&;s environmental and sustainability challenges requires more than expertise and technology. Effective solutions will require that we engage with other people, wrestle with difficult questions, and learn how to adapt and make confident decisions despite uncertainty. We need new approaches to leadership that empower professionals at all levels to tackle wicked problems and work towards sustainability.
 
Leadership for Sustainability gives readers perspective and skills for promoting creative and collaborative solutions. Blending systems thinking approaches with leadership techniques, it offers dozens of strategies and specific practices that build on the foundation of three main skills: connecting, collaborating, and adapting. Inspiring case studies show how the book&;s strategies and principles can be applied to diverse situations:
 
  • Coordinating the activities of widely dispersed individuals and groups who may not even know they are connected, illustrated by the work of urban planners, local businesses, citizens, and other stakeholders advancing ambitious climate action goals via a Community Energy Plan in Arlington County, Virginia
  • Collaborating with diverse stakeholders to span boundaries despite their differences of opinion, expertise, and culture, as illustrated by the bold actions of a social entrepreneur who transformed the global food service industry with the &;plant-forward&; movement
  • Adapting to continuous change and confounding uncertainty, as a small nonprofit organization mobilizes partners to tackle poverty, water scarcity, sanitation, and climate change in rural India
Readers will come away with a holistic understanding of how to lead from where they are by applying leadership principles and practices to a wide range of wicked situations. While the challenges we face are daunting, the authors argue that these situations present opportunities for creating a more just, healthy, and prosperous world.

Solving today&;s environmental and sustainability challenges requires more than expertise and technology. Effective solutions will require that we engage with other people, wrestle with difficult questions, and learn how to adapt and make confident decisions despite uncertainty. We need new approaches to leadership that empower professionals at all levels to tackle wicked problems and work towards sustainability.
 
Leadership for Sustainability gives readers perspective and skills for promoting creative and collaborative solutions. Blending systems thinking approaches with leadership techniques, it offers dozens of strategies and specific practices, illustrated by inspiring case studies. Readers will come away with a holistic understanding of how to lead from where they are by applying leadership principles and practices to a wide range of wicked situations.
Preface xi
Chapter 1 Introduction
1(12)
I Roadmap for the Anthropocene
13(46)
Chapter 2 Challenges of the Anthropocene
15(22)
Target the intensifying challenges that will otherwise derail sustainable development: prosperity, urbanization, food, agriculture, water, climate, energy, the linear economy, and inequality
Chapter 3 Opportunities of the Anthropocene
37(22)
Position your organization, community, and career for success by understanding how markets, governance, and governments are transforming
II Toolbox for Wicked Leadership
59(106)
Chapter 4 Leadership Basics
61(20)
Lead from where you are by facilitating direction, alignment, and commitment
Understand the special leadership challenges and practices that apply to wicked problems
Chapter 5 Connecting across Space and Time
81(22)
Connect highly dispersed stakeholders using accountability, storytelling, community of practice and learning, train-the-trainer, scaling up, diffusion, collective impact, and social marketing
Chapter 6 Collaborating across Differences
103(36)
Overcome psychological barriers that make collaboration difficult: elephant riding, confirmation bias, filter bubbles, identity protective reasoning, and echo chambers
Pick your battles by targeting elites, using facts cautiously, and avoiding propaganda feedback loops
Manage identity by triggering group membership, affirming self-worth, playing nice, saying yes-and, and nuancing the story
Navigate differences with self-awareness, respecting differences, active listening, and focusing on interests not positions
Build trust and form partnerships
Chapter 7 Adapting to Change, Uncertainty, and Failure
139(26)
Respond to confounding uncertainty with sensemaking, learning by doing, innovating, being disruptive, striving for resiliency, anticipating the future, and sharing lessons
III Storybook: People Practicing Wicked Leadership
165(74)
Chapter 8 Introducing Leadership Stories
167(4)
Illustrations of leadership practices in the messiness of real-world situations
Chapter 9 Changing Tastes: Influencing Identity and Choices for Sustainable Food
171(8)
Identity management and choice editing techniques are applied when business and NGO actors coordinate to influence consumer demand and shape social impacts
Chapter 10 Leadership Is a Key Ingredient in Water: Getting Direction, Alignment, and Commitment in India
179(10)
Techniques for creating direction, alignment, and commitment, as well as train-the-trainer skills are used to create access to water, requiring large-scale coordination from highly dispersed and diverse stakeholders and NGO actors
Chapter 11 Collective Impact for Climate Mitigation
189(12)
Collective impact practice is applied in a case requiring coordination of many different government, business, and NGO actors
Chapter 12 Innovating Carbon Farming
201(10)
Techniques for collaborative innovation, sensemaking, and stakeholder engagement are applied by business entrepreneurs, farmers, and NGO actors for carbon sequestration
Chapter 13 Accounting Makes Sustainability Profitable, Possible, and Boring
211(6)
Accountability and transparency are used in a multinational business to coordinate actions of distributed stakeholders, including investors, managers, engineers, and consumers
Chapter 14 Fire Learning Network
217(8)
Trust building, learning communities, and learn-by-doing techniques are applied to diverse and widespread organizations and government actors promoting biodiversity
Chapter 15 Partnering for Clean Water and Community Benefit
225(10)
Partnership techniques are used to help government and business actors install and maintain more green infrastructure than they can do alone
Chapter 16 Conclusion
235(4)
Notes 239
R. Bruce Hullis a Senior Fellow at the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability at Virginia Tech, which provides graduate education and professional development opportunities for sustainability professionals working at the intersection of business, government, and civil society. He has authored and edited numerous publications, including two books, Infinite Nature (University of Chicago Press) and Restoring Nature (Island Press). Michael Mortimer is Founding Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability at Virginia Tech. Dr. Mortimer works with professionals and students on sustainable development questions in locations around the world, and his most active research and writing is centered on the role that global cities can play in leading and solving sustainable development challenges.

David Robertson is Founding Director of the Executive Master of Natural Resources graduate degree program and Senior Fellow at the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, Virginia Tech. Dr. Robertson is also a founder and principal of Educene, a travel education, upskilling, consulting firm.