Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Building Leadership Bridges) - Softcover

This volume consists of 17 chapters that describe how leaders can implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. They discuss leadership qualities and capacities needed to achieve the goals, including restorative leadership, humanistic leadership, leadership practices that support regenerative design and development, adaptive and strategic leadership, and learning from lessons from women in high-risk environments; the importance of value alignment, in terms of fossil fuel divestment, guiding organizational action towards addressing world problems, and aligning for social change; the role of relationships, with specific case study examples and ways to negotiate for sustainable relationships and prosperity; creating an inclusive economy, including using an integrative systems perspective, principles for co-creating a sustainable economy, and using the measurement of Gross National Happiness; and education and training as tools for systemic transformation and building peace and sustainability, with discussion of specific case studies. Contributors are leadership and other scholars from around the world. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *

History was made when the United Nations published Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and world leaders stepped up to pledge unifying commitments to secure a sustainable future "where all life can thrive." Now, we the people-the world's individuals, organizations, and communities that have been championing the shared vision of a sustainable future-need access to the best leadership guidance available to build on the successes of past efforts and advance breakthrough progress. Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provides that guidance. This collection is a go-to resource for individuals wishing to heighten leadership effectiveness through access to vanguard theory and practice. It highlights stories and insights from leadership practitioners and scholars around the world, in the process offering invaluable insights into diverse lessons, models, and practices, and it offers case and place-based chapters that bridge theory and practice to empower diverse actors around the world. As the Agenda acknowledges, "The future of humanity and of our planet lies in our hands. ... It will be for all of us to ensure that the journey is successful and its gains irreversible." Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing is essential reading not only for leaders and leadership scholars, but also for anyone eager to face the Agenda's challenge head on.