sustainability and leadership, some reflections

Sustainability & Leadership!!

Stop, Reflect and Listen . . .!

”. . . 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 !

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!

”Black Swan Logic makes what you don�t know far more relevant than what you do know.� !- Nassim Nicholas Taleb,, The Black Swan!

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)

” Know thyself��- Plato!

(To be sustainable, we must first understand who we are, what we want, and where we want to go.)!!

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?!!!

"Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.��- Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit !

What can I do to help others be the best they can be?!!

!Authentic Leadership!

”. . . 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 is continuous.!!How do we go from change to transformation?!

” There is much more to coaching than coaching.��– Sir John Whitmore!

Coaching is a tool, a technique that is known, but has been forgotten.!!

!The map is not the territory.!

”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.!

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Reflecting, - relating, - listening . . .!!- observing.!

”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!

Seeing life without filters, no rose tinted glasses, no smokescreen; clearly, transparent, coherent, aware.!!

! !Awareness is curative.!

Triple bottom line accounting; expanding the traditional reporting framework to take into account ecological and social performance in addition to financial performance. - Wikipedia!

Maximizing profits, all the profits, and including costs, all the costs.!

What makes you happy?!

Summary: !•  Sustainability!

•  Leadership!•  Myself!

•  Others!•  Change!

•  Coaching!•  Reflecting, Relating, Listening!

•  The Zero Perspective!•  Triple Bottom Line (no ”externalities”)!•  The Bottom Line!

!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!

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 !!!

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