Leap: A Sustainability Fable

by Dennis B. Posadas

Leap: A Sustainability Fable is a simple business fable about an auto industry technology executive, his company and the importance of corporate sustainability in business. To the dismay of his fellow co-founders who started the company with him, he had become a purely profit driven executive, at the expense of everything else. Fortunately someone from his past rekindles his love for people and the environment, and helps him change his outlook on life
and business as a whole.

Leap is a simple way to introduce company managers and workers, as well as general readers, to the sustainable business concept of Profit, People and Planet first popularized by British sustainability guru John Elkington. As you may know, capitalism has recently taken heavy criticism from various sectors, including Pope Francis, as being too profit driven at the expense of people and the environment.

Let the Leap fable take your understanding of Profit, People and Planet corporate sustainability goals beyond a typical public window dressing mentality and convert it into one that tries to meet these sustainable business goals internally even if no one else is looking.

Paperback

Published November 1, 2015

About the author

Dennis Posadas is the author of Leap: A Sustainability Fable (Singapore: Pearson, 2015), Greenergized (UK: Greenleaf, 2013), Jump Start: A Technopreneurship Fable (Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009) and Rice & Chips: Technopreneurship and Innovation in Asia (Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007).

Dennis's books with Pearson and Greenleaf have been blurbed by Bill McKibben (NYT bestselling environment author), Mary Ellen Egan (Forbes), John Vidal (The Guardian), and Eric Spiegel (CEO, Siemens USA).

He blogs at www.theasianspectator.com. He has also written a few short stories and ebooks for the Kindle platform.

His published credits include Bloomberg BusinessWeek.com, Forbes Asia, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, YaleGlobal, Dartmouth Business Journal, Singapore Straits Times, Singapore Business Times, Japan Today, UCLA AsiaMedia, UPI, Carbon Trading UK, Jakarta Post, Inquirer.net and other newspapers. He was formerly a technology columnist for the Philippine newspaper BusinessWorld.

Dennis is an engineer by training and has been a technical consultant for a waste to energy company and a low carbon transport company. He has been an international fellow (Asia-based) of the Washington, DC based Climate Institute. He was formerly an Intel Corporation fellow to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Advanced Study Program, and a former Deputy Director of the Philippines Congressional Commission on S&T and Engineering.

He lives with his wife Joy and children in the Philippines.