Sustainable Leadership: Leadership from the Heart. By Steen Hildebrandt and Michael Stubberup, Copenhagen Press, 2012; 280 Pages. Price $29.99, ISBN 978-87-7853-207-7

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We must develop a serious approach to the fact that emotions, thoughts, assessments, and decisions originate in the mind, and as such are firmly based in human beings. We sense, experience, and act on the basis of internal processes, but which criteria constitute the basis of these processes and how does the internal “control system”, which we all have, function? Moreover, we need to take a closer look at the ways in which the organic and sustainable mechanisms of our living organisms are optimized and explicated. Otto Scharmer calls this process going from ego-system-awareness to eco-system-awareness. These are some of the questions which are at the heart of this book.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction: The Necessary Change
• Chapter 1: Sustainable Leadership – Our Choice
• Chapter 2: The Great Paradigm Shift
• Chapter 3: Dynamic Elements in the Mosaics of the Future
• Chapter 4: Interdisciplinary Research in Leadership and Organization
• Chapter 5: The Brain as a Self-organizing System
• Chapter 6: The Intelligent Heart
• Chapter 7: The Leadership-from-the-Heart Triangle
• Chapter 8: A Gear Shift and Four Fundamental Aspects of the Mind
• Chapter 9: Time and Sustainability
• Chapter 10: Knowledge about Knowing Obliges
• Postscript

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