Sustainable Leadership
Sourcing and Multiplying Happiness
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This book is for the leaders of tomorrow, whose actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more. Now that the report of the Oxford Martin Commission for future generations “Now for the long term” is published on October 16,2013 and is expected to be debated far and wide, a book on how to do it is an imperative. This book is written in 12 chapters in simple language for the understanding of the process of leadership that attracts followers of today and future through a well crafted leadership strategy. The book gives different levels and types of leadership to gauge where the reader stands now, with the distinguishing features of each level. Several frameworks or tools are given in each chapter, which are conceptually novel, yet simple to adopt. At the end of each chapter ten probing questions are posed to the reader as a script that would give insight to the direction to be taken to become a sustainable leader. There are books written on strategic leadership, environmental leadership, emergent leadership, and imminent leadership, most of which are dispositional perspective based; and gives concepts related to one aspect of the whole. Sustainable leadership is written in the process and network perspective, where the leadership in an enjoyable experience for both the leader and the followers and is first of its kind. The reader would get the richness and the freshness of a combined strategic and natural feeling. Even though this book fits best in the self help genre, it fits well in the business and environment sections also comfortably. The leaders and leaders-to-be at all levels in the business world, civil society, international organizations, and policy making level in the Governments would benefit immensely with this 250 page book. Each chapter is not only enriched with conceptual frameworks that express the elements or mechanisms of the leadership process, but sprinkled with several boxes giving alternate theories, as well. Examples of sustainable leaders in history are given, but their biographies as cases are not given in the book, as information is readily available elsewhere.
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Sustainable Leadership: Sourcing and Multiplying Happiness acknowledges the desire of those in leadership—CEOs and other executives—to sustain their own positions as leaders and to bestow legacies upon those who follow and the societies in which they live. To that end, Jacob Thomas outlines and describes sustainable leadership, presents several novel frameworks that enable individuals to develop methods for practicing sustainable leadership, and suggests sets of self-assessment questions to guide one’s personal reflection. In the course of its discussion, Sustainable Leadership describes how leaders can sustain their positions, cultivate insight, strengthen their inner selves, develop intention, consider context, show regard for followers, create strategy, act decisively, make an impact, analyze performance, engender wonder, and plan for the future. Ample numbers of illustrating figures and insight boxes highlight the key points of Sustainable Leadership. These features help any leader or researcher who seeks to appreciate, understand, and apply the insights of this approach to see clearly the main points to grasp when discerning the sources and the potential for multiplying happiness as a practitioner of sustainable leadership.
About the Author
Jacob Thomas earned his doctoral degree in Agronomy from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, and was a doctoral fellow in Human Resource Development with Research Guide from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Thomas is a strategist, environmentalist, and practitioner of yoga and meditation. He held CEO positions in several organizations in different sectors since the year 1991. He also coaches and mentors young leaders on their paths toward excellence. He is voted as the “Manorama Newsmaker of the year 2015” and is currently working for the cause of Good Governance.