1st Edition
Sustainable Leadership Honeybee and Locust Approaches
1. Sustainable Enterprises 2. Elements of Sustainable Leadership 3. Foundation Practices 4. Higher-level Practices and Key Performance Drivers 5. Performance Outcomes as Leadership Practices Interact 6. Epilogue: After the Global Financial Crisis
Biography
Gayle C. Avery is Professor of Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia, and co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Leadership (www.instituteforsustainableleadership.com). She has authored a number of books on leadership and sustainability.
Harald Bergsteiner was Adjunct Professor at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia, and is a co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Leadership.
"Avery and Bergsteiner have done a masterful job at fleshing out the honeybee metaphor that drives sustainable organizations. They have identified 23 leadership practices that enable organizations to survive and thrive in both good and bad economies. They offer specific examples and leadership tools to bring these practices to life. They show that companies who adopt and adapt these ideas have higher employee, customer, investor, and community returns. This is a book worth reading, and using!" - Professor Dave Ulrich, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group.
"An important work that clearly identifies the insanity of our current business model of repeating the same unsustainable behaviours and expecting different results, while at the same time offering a hopeful, sensible, and sustainable cure for that insanity." - Dr A. James LoPresti, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
