Leadership for Sustainability: Strategies for Tackling Wicked Problems

by R. Bruce Hull, David P. Robertson, Michael Mortimer

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 connecting, collaborating, and adapting. Inspiring case studies show how the book’s strategies and principles can be applied to diverse
  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.

272 pages, Paperback

Published November 17, 2020

Reviews

[Marc Buckley · Rating 5 out of 5]

“For the wicked problems that we face today we need tools to help connect and influence people who aren’t in the same organisations — and we have got a bunch of tools that do that.”
These ‘wicked problems’ are the very toughest social and cultural problems we face, like food insecurity, climate change, and economic inequity. Challenges Dr Bruce Hull, looks at from a leadership perspective. Leadership, he says, that we can all show and implement, not leadership that begins with a job title. I love this approach and how it empowers more people to be leaders in this middle out model instead of top-down.
I had Bruce on my podcast Inside Ideas where we talked about his book and leadership for sustainability. You can find episode 85 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iz4x...

Or check out the links below:
https://www.innovatorsmag.com/how-we-...
https://www.innovatorsmag.com/inside-...
https://medium.com/inside-ideas/dr-r-...

This is a book from Island Press: https://islandpress.org/

[Lander Tee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Addressed a lot of issues that we are facing in the world. Also provided some solutions to the issues. Wish I read it in my free time instead of rushed it through in 3 weeks for my class.

[Natalee Good · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great read for sustainable leadership. Applicable information.