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Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World
Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Deliver Extraordinary Sustainability Results for Your Business
In Sustainable Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World, accomplished leadership expert Clarke Murphy shares a can’t-miss toolkit for delivering remarkable sustainability results. You’ll learn what it takes to become a Sustainable Leader and how you can turn your sustainability promises into tangible action on the ground.
Drawing on the real-life stories of Sustainable Leaders from across the world, Murphy proves that sustainability success is within reach for every business executive. He debunks the myth that sustainability is at odds with profitability and reveals the inside track on how to make sustainability your new growth strategy.
You’ll
A step-by-step framework on how to build your Sustainable Leadership legacy. Pragmatic examples of balancing the demands of shareholders and other stakeholders. Lessons from CEOs on how they stayed the course in the face of setbacks. Strategies to prepare your up-and-coming executives to carry the sustainability mantle and help you hit your short and long-term sustainability goals.
An essential blueprint for CEOs, boards, founders, entrepreneurs, and other business executives, Sustainable Leadership also deserves a place on the bookshelves of Chief Sustainability Officers and ESG professionals looking for immediately actionable approaches to increase the long-term viability of their organizations.
Deliver Extraordinary Sustainability Results for Your Business
In Sustainable Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World, accomplished leadership expert Clarke Murphy shares a can’t-miss toolkit for delivering remarkable sustainability results. You’ll learn what it takes to become a Sustainable Leader and how you can turn your sustainability promises into tangible action on the ground.
Drawing on the real-life stories of Sustainable Leaders from across the world, Murphy proves that sustainability success is within reach for every business executive. He debunks the myth that sustainability is at odds with profitability and reveals the inside track on how to make sustainability your new growth strategy.
You’ll
A step-by-step framework on how to build your Sustainable Leadership legacy. Pragmatic examples of balancing the demands of shareholders and other stakeholders. Lessons from CEOs on how they stayed the course in the face of setbacks. Strategies to prepare your up-and-coming executives to carry the sustainability mantle and help you hit your short and long-term sustainability goals.
An essential blueprint for CEOs, boards, founders, entrepreneurs, and other business executives, Sustainable Leadership also deserves a place on the bookshelves of Chief Sustainability Officers and ESG professionals looking for immediately actionable approaches to increase the long-term viability of their organizations.
- GenresSustainability
207 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 22, 2022
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November 2, 2022
I wouldn’t broadly recommend the book because of some problematic parts in it:
• Categorizing individuals involved in sustainability into three categories – born this way, convinced, and awoken. It doesn’t add to the context of the book and has no real empirical basis but would definitely fuel the flames. For his born this way, he cites an innate connection with and passion for the environment and how some people are just wired with it and therefore, will always be the most passionate about sustainability. Arguable for sure.
• Incessant focus on the younger generation (millennials and gen z) who were just born this way and get sustainability at a level that even the convinced and awoken would not come to – they need to be given a platform and the right experiences to drive the sustainability agenda to the forefront of all companies agendas. Even Heineken’s age limit (must be under 30) for their annual sustainability contest is viewed as a positive.
However, for those of us who are able to take a more measured approach to the content, I would recommend it because of the case studies that are included within – some of what companies have done is beyond admirable and should definitely spark innovative juices.
From a pure leadership perspective, there’s nothing unique presented. A sustainable leader needs to have vision, grit, multicultural experiences, a problem-solving mindset, openness to criticism and new ideas, multi-level systems thinking, an ability to lead change and translate vision across a range of stakeholder groups, agility, flexibility, authenticity, courage, patience, humility, compassion, and a willingness to listen. In other words, the characteristics of an exemplary leader for any organization in this environment.
I also compared this book to Conscious Leadership (Mackey) and must say that I am more drawn to Conscious Leadership. They did have some things in common but CL had a whole section devoted to people and culture and included the concept of leading with love and regularly revitalizing. I did not get any of the people side within sustainable leadership, it was all about innovation.
• Categorizing individuals involved in sustainability into three categories – born this way, convinced, and awoken. It doesn’t add to the context of the book and has no real empirical basis but would definitely fuel the flames. For his born this way, he cites an innate connection with and passion for the environment and how some people are just wired with it and therefore, will always be the most passionate about sustainability. Arguable for sure.
• Incessant focus on the younger generation (millennials and gen z) who were just born this way and get sustainability at a level that even the convinced and awoken would not come to – they need to be given a platform and the right experiences to drive the sustainability agenda to the forefront of all companies agendas. Even Heineken’s age limit (must be under 30) for their annual sustainability contest is viewed as a positive.
However, for those of us who are able to take a more measured approach to the content, I would recommend it because of the case studies that are included within – some of what companies have done is beyond admirable and should definitely spark innovative juices.
From a pure leadership perspective, there’s nothing unique presented. A sustainable leader needs to have vision, grit, multicultural experiences, a problem-solving mindset, openness to criticism and new ideas, multi-level systems thinking, an ability to lead change and translate vision across a range of stakeholder groups, agility, flexibility, authenticity, courage, patience, humility, compassion, and a willingness to listen. In other words, the characteristics of an exemplary leader for any organization in this environment.
I also compared this book to Conscious Leadership (Mackey) and must say that I am more drawn to Conscious Leadership. They did have some things in common but CL had a whole section devoted to people and culture and included the concept of leading with love and regularly revitalizing. I did not get any of the people side within sustainable leadership, it was all about innovation.
February 16, 2023
An exciting look at how leadership is changing in many different fields and organizations to work toward a more sustainable world.
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