Title: The positive deviant : sustainability leadership in a perverse world /
Authors: Parkin, Sara.
Publisher: Earthscan,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Leadership; Sustainable development
Abstract: This book is the first to bring together sustainability knowledge with the leadership skills and tools to help you become one of those leaders. It contains all you need to get started at once, and to continue growing your effectiveness, even in a world that remains perversely intent on the opposite.Whether you are new to the whole idea of sustainability, or reasonably well informed but not entirely confident about what to do for the best, this guide will help you 'do' sustainability.
Contents: The symptoms -- Anatomy and physiology -- The treatment -- The best and worst of it : leadership today -- Business school betrayal -- Four habits of thought -- New perspectives and broad knowledge -- Principles of practice and tools for the trade -- A global sustainability to do list.