Leading the Sustainable Organization - (Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative) by Peter McAteer (Hardcover)

About the Book

Our current leaders have failed to move quickly or decisively to address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability. The book offers a blueprint for a new generation of leaders to transform industry and create a new, more equitable future.

Book Synopsis

Leading a sustainable organization requires more than marketing slogans and good reporting. It requires identifying the value of sustainability for all stakeholders and the development of specific transition and change plans that deliver a different type of organization. Noble aspirations in treaties and policies are a necessary part of the picture, but leaders must create organizations that enable daily actions. Making sustainability happen is a series of leadership choices:
o Creating strategic differentiation to compete on sustainability business opportunities
o Crafting a purpose that inspires employees to give their best
o Building and sharing a knowledge model about why, what, and how to do sustainability
o Ensuring that sustainability efforts are woven into values and ethics
o Deploying a transition plan with clear action steps that move from compliance to alignment
o Making sustainability part of the culture and identity of an organization
o Weaving personal commitment to sustainability into team performance
o Telling the story of sustainable results in all business communication
o Maintaining commitment in the face of inevitable derailment factors
o Future proofing the organization to stay on the sustainability journey with a sense of long-term value creation
● The current generation of leaders has failed to make the progress needed to delay the worst effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, so the challenges become harder. The book offers a chapter-by-chapter blueprint of key actions that can be learned and shared. The goal is to enable business leaders to accelerate action, make better decisions, and ensure that sustainability becomes part of the DNA of any organization.
Key Selling Points:
● Timely: We are behind on all sustainable goals and need a new generation of leaders to embrace the task of business transformation.
● Accessible: The book is clearly organized around key practices and questions and prescriptive in nature. Each chapter has summary sections and an end of chapter quiz.
● Visual: The book includes more than 60 tables, charts, and graphs that visually illustrate how to turn ideas into actions.
● Global: The stories in the book are global in nature, providing greater engagement opportunities for the reader.
Why buy the book?
● Eleven chapters that offer a step-by-step learning path of key themes and capabilities necessary for sustainable business success.
● Sixty-seven tables and charts that visualize key topics.
● Chapter summaries that offer key points for reflection and group discussion.
● End of chapter reflection checklists to quickly assess your understanding of chapter themes.
● Eight longer reflection exercises framed around key questions. Each is based on real world examples including links for additional original source reading.
● An appendix listing eleven databases that can be used for independent research.
● A summary list of sixty-six terms with definitions that are key to understanding sustainability thinking.

About the Author

PETER MCATEER is Managing Director of Sustain Learning LLC. He was also former Managing Director of Harvard Business Publishing and former Chief Learning Officer of the United Nations Development Programme.