Sustainability and Leadership, Some Reflections
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1. The document discusses topics around sustainability, leadership, personal reflection, and creating positive change. 2. It emphasizes the importance of looking within oneself, listening to others, and transforming on both personal and societal levels to address issues like climate change. 3. The overall message is about using reflection and leadership to work towards sustainability through a holistic lens that considers environmental, social, and financial impacts.
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- 1. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 1!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Sustainability & Leadership! ! Stop, Reflect and Listen . . .!
- 2. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 2!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ”. . . the effects of climate on companies operations are now so tangible and certain that the issue is best addressed with the tools of the strategist, not the philanthropist. ! - Michael E. Porter & Forest L. Reinhardt, Harvard Business Review, Oct. 2007 issue, p. 22 ! Sustainability!
- 3. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 3!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! So far as the lifestyle of the ”developed” world is concerned, ! !Humanity is NOT sustainable! ! ! !We live on borrowed time! ! ! ! !Time we are borrowing from our children! Sustainability!
- 4. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 4!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ”Black Swan Logic makes what you don t know far more relevant than what you do know. ! - Nassim NicholasTaleb,,The Black Swan! Leadership!
- 5. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 5!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Leadership! Leadership is first and foremost about being an example; practice what you preach, walk your talk, (knowing that you don’t know)! ! ! !. . . and be your potential! ! ! !P = p – i What is in your way?! (Performance = potential – interference - Timothy Gallwey,The Inner Game)
- 6. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 6!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ” Know thyself - Plato! (To be sustainable, we must first understand who we are, what we want, and where we want to go.)! ! Myself!
- 7. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 7!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Myself! So I ask myself:! !Who/Where am I, really?! !Who/Where do I want to be?! !What environment will help me be who I am?! !What am I prepared to DO to get there?! !!
- 8. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 8!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! "Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. - Stephen R. Covey,The 8th Habit ! Others!
- 9. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 9!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Others! What can I do to help others be the best they can be?! ! !Authentic Leadership!
- 10. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 10!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ”. . . transformation is the process of a caterpillar transforming gradually into a butterfly, arriving at a totally different stage. Change, . . . is the small caterpillar growing into a big one. We argue that mere change - a bigger caterpillar, as it were - is not enough. ! - Transformation, vol. 20 issue 16. Rooted in China / Reaching Out to the World, Ying Xue et. al.!Change!
- 11. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 11!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Change! Change is continuous.! !How do we go from change to transformation?!
- 12. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 12!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ”There is much more to coaching than coaching. – Sir John Whitmore! ! Coaching!
- 13. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 13!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Coaching! Coaching is a tool, a technique that is known, but has been forgotten.! ! !The map is not the territory.!
- 14. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 14!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ”It is hard enough to address environmental problems, such as global climate change, when people are aware of them; it is all the harder when they are not. ! - The Human Relation With Nature and Technological Nature. Peter H. Kahn, et. al.! Reflecting,Relating,Listening!
- 15. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 15!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Reflecting,Relating,Listening! Reflecting, - relating, - listening . . .! ! - observing.!
- 16. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 16!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ”Only when the mind is uncluttered can the new come into being, and for this reason we say that thought must be still, operating only when it has to – objectively, efficiently. ! - J. Krishnamurti, The Urgency of Change! TheZeroPerspective!
- 17. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 17!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! TheZeroPerspective! Seeing life without filters, no rose tinted glasses, no smokescreen; clearly, transparent, coherent, aware.! ! ! !Awareness is curative.!
- 18. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 18!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Triple bottom line accounting; expanding the traditional reporting framework to take into account ecological and social performance in addition to financial performance. - Wikipedia! TripleBottomLine!
- 19. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 19!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! TripleBottomLine! Maximizing profits, all the profits, and including costs, all the costs.!
- 20. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 20!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! TheBottomLine! What makes you happy?!
- 21. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 21!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! Summary: ! • Sustainability! • Leadership! • Myself! • Others! • Change! • Coaching! • Reflecting, Relating, Listening! • The Zero Perspective! • Triple Bottom Line (no ”externalities”)! • The Bottom Line!
- 22. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 22!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ThankYou!!
- 23. www.openworldfoundation.org ! 23!© 2006 - 2009 Open World Foundation! ! As a social entrepreneur Christer Söderberg has developed an intimate relationship with the multiple aspects and interdependency of international business, human beings, and the environment. Christer started and managed a NGO coordinating humanitarian aid during the war in Bosnia, managed a telecom product design company based in Hong Kong and as Director of a Swedish multinational in Brazil, established the industrial products company in six South American countries. Christer has lived in nine countries and speaks the languages of seven, experiencing first hand the differences in culture and working conditions on four continents. ! ! After returning from Brazil in 2002 Christer started Zero Aeons AB, a Stockholm based Business Leadership and Communications consultancy. In 2006 he introduced Brazilian art, furniture, and design to Sweden and helped develop a business based on a triple bottom line. Open World Foundation builds on the spirit of these two businesses, and with the Open World Café (Stockholm) and Open World Lodge (Mococa, Brazil) creates meeting places to inspire a transformational dialogue about sustainability and leadership. ! ! For further information please contact:! !! !Christer Söderberg ! !Zero Aeons AB / Open World Foundation! !Box 98! !182 11 Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden! ! !Open World Café & Gallery! !Sätraängsvägen 134! !182 37 Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden! ! ! Photography by Christer Söderberg, Rogério Shimmori, and Marcos Croce. © 2009 Christer Söderberg, Rogério Shimmori, and Marcos Croce, respectively.! ! !! Tel: !+ 46 (0)8 622 6703 (OWCafé)! Cell: !+ 46 (0)70 880 3672! E-mail: !christer@openworldfoundation.org! !christer@zeroaeons.com ! Web: !www.openworldfoundation.org! !www.zeroaeons.com! !www.fafbrazil.com! Community: !www.openworldcafe.com ! !!