Reconstructing Value; Leadership Skills For A Sustainable World

To accomplish transformation and reconstruct value, “triple-loop” learning is required. Building on the work of Chris Argyris, Donald Schon, and others, the authors distinguish between single-loop learning that asks, “are we doing things right;” “double-loop learning that asks “are we doing the right things;” triple-loop learning that asks “how do we decide what is right.” It is this last question that stretches leaders to reconsider their organizations’ various relationships and opens the door to systems transformation.
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nThis book is extremely useful to three target audiences:
n1. Executives, managers, and consultants who are seeking to influence their organizations in the direction of sustainability, i.e. for their organizations to provide products/services and use processes that preserve and create a livable world for future generations, rather than diminishing the quality of the Earth’s environment and its ability to sustain life as we know it.
n2. Stakeholders of these organizations, including end customers, companies in their supply chains, other companies in their business ecosystems, shareholders, regulatory agencies, NGO’s, and others with a stake in their success.
n3. Students and their teachers involved in educational programs focused on this meaning of “managing for sustainability.” ELIZABETH C. KURUCZ, BARRY A. COLBERT & DAVID WHEELER (authors)