The positive deviant: Sustainability leadership in a perverse world

The Positive Deviant: Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-316

  Parkin, Sara ^a  

^a Forum for the Future ^*  (United Kingdom)

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75. Grint, K. (2000) The Arts of Leadership, Oxford University Press, Oxford Four 'arts' of leadership-Philosophical Arts (identity); Fine Arts (strategic vision); Martial Arts (organizational tactics); Performing Arts (persuasive communication)-are used for an unsentimental analysis of the performance of leaders ranging from Hitler to Martin Luther King. If you read only one book on leadership per se, let it be this one.
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98. Jackson, T. (1996) Material Concerns, Routledge, London Explains the universal laws governing the way energy and raw materials are processed through the economy in a very easy to understand way, and shows how the economy and industrial process would be different if this knowledge was applied in pursuit of sustainability.
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117. Layard, R. (2005) Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Penguin, London An economist's take on the scientific evidence that happiness (subjective well-being in a moral, well-lived life) makes a better (more realistic) goal for economics, with a nine-point recommendation to policy makers on how to make it happen.
118. Layard, R. and Dunn, J. (2009) A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age, Penguin, London
119. Leggett, J. (2005) Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis, Portobello Books, London
120. Leighton, A. (2007) On Leadership: Practical Wisdom from the People Who Know, Random House, London
121. Leopold, A. (1949) A Sand County Almanac, Oxford University Press, New York, NY Famous for his 'land ethic'.
122. Levitt, R, Christie, I, Jacobs, M. and Therivel, R. (2003) A Better Choice of Choice, The Fabian Society, London
123. Lomborg, B. (2000) The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, NY, Oakleigh, Madrid and Cape Town A very long book from a statistician denying that environmental degradation is a problem. He got into trouble for the ethics of the way he manipulated statistics, and proves the importance of using quality sources.
124. Lovelock, J. (1979) Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, Oxford University Press, Oxford A Nobel Prize worthy insight into how the world really works.
125. Lovelock, J. (2006) The Revenge of Gaia, Allan Lane, London An angry man reflects on the consequences of not acting on the evidence he and others presented a long time ago.
126. Lovins, A, Datta, K, Bustes, O.E. and Koomey, J. (2005) Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security, Rocky Mountain Institute, Boulder, CO
127. Lunn, P. (2008) Basic Instincts: Human Nature and the New Economy, Marshall Cavendish, London Contrasting the model of Marketopia with that of Muddleton, Lunn exposes a basic flaw in the way orthodox economics understands human behaviour.
128. Macfarlane, A. (2005) Letters to Lily: On How the World Works, Allen and Unwin, London Letters from a grandfather, an anthropologist to his granddaughter explaining why the world and people are the way they are.
129. Macintyre, A. (1981) After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Duckworth, London
130. Mackay, D. J. C. (2009) Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air, UIT Cambridge, Cambridge, and on-line Quite the best source for reliable figures on climate change and energy options.
131. Margulis, L. (1998) The Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution, Phoenix, London
132. McMahon, D. (2006) The Pursuit of Happiness, Allan Lane, London Of the canon of 'happiness' books this one gives an overview of the history of the search for human happiness that is not about just feeling good, but being good too. It has a happy ending.
133. McDonough, W. and Braungart, M. (2002) Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things, North Point Press, New York City, NY Excellent on how to close technological and biogeochemical material loops.
134. MEA (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment) (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis, Island Press, Washington DC
135. Meadows D. (2009) Thinking in Systems, Earthscan, London From the lead author of The Limits to Growth, a painless entry into the world of systems thinking-finalized by friends after her sudden death.
136. Meadows, D. H, Meadows, D. L, Randers, J. and Behrens III W. W. (1972) The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind, Earth Island Press, London
137. Midgley, M. (2003), The Myths We Live By, Routledge, London We need myths and symbols to help us find meaning in life. But have we got the right ones? See also her other writings.
138. Mill, J. S. (1848, 2004 edition) Principles of Political Economy, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY Millennium Development Goals, www.un.org/millenniumgoals
139. Miller, G. (2009) Spent: Sex, Evolution and the Secrets of Consumerism, William Heinemann, London About the turbo-consumption motor at the heart of our economy. Is this as good as it gets? Still time to evolve differently. Read in conjuction with Levitt et al on a better choice of choice.
140. Mintzberg, H. (1994) The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, Pearson Education, Harlow, Essex
141. Mintzberg, H, Ahlstrand, B. and Lampel, J. (2005) Strategy Bites Back: It is a lot More and Less, Than you ever Imagined, FT Prentice Hall, London A real miscellany of contributions including an admiring Gary Hamel interview with the criminally indicted (and now late) Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron. Definitely for fun, and confirmation of one of the contributor's assertions that 'there is more vacuity about strategy than about any other topic in business today'.
142. Monbiot, G. (2000) The Captive State, MacMillan, London A no-holds-barred on how government's dependence on business and wealthy individuals undermines democracy.
143. Monbiot, G. (2007) Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, Allan Lane, London A gripping account of Monbiot's attempt to work out how to get the heat, power and light we currently use without fossil fuels.
144. Mulgan, G. (2006) Good and Bad Power, Allan Lane, London An excellent review of how states originated and how power is both accumulated and circumscribed in the modern world. An argument for government as servant to the whole world and the future. An excellent summary of the arguments at the end offers a model that others could follow with benefit.
145. Mulgan, G. (2009) The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilising Power and Knowledge for the Public Good, Oxford University Press, Oxford A little old-fashioned in the chapter on leadership, but excellent on strategies for implementing and evaluating public policy.
146. Myers, I. B. and McCaulley, B. H. (1985), Manual: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA
147. Naess, A. ( Rothenburg, D. tr) (1990) Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Not for the fainthearted, but lots of learning from an intellectual pioneer.
148. Neiman, S. (2009) Moral Clarity, Bodley Head, London A brilliant analysis of the 'metaphysic' of the right (ambiguous) and left (non-existent) in the US. A delicious settling of political scores but a most readable book that doesn't let the reader off the hook of clarifying their own morality.
149. NIC (2008) Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, National Intelligence Council (US), November, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC or www.dni.gov/nic.
150. Nye, J. (2008) The Power to Lead, Oxford University Press, New York, NY From the man who introduced soft and hard power to the political toolbox-what every leader should know.
151. Ostrom, E. (1990) Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Alternatives to state or market-based solutions for looking after the environment-proving that locally crafted solutions work better in theory and backed by lots of practical examples to learn from.
152. O'Toole, J. (1995) Leading Change: The Argument for Values-based Leadership, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
153. Owen, D. (2009) The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power, Politicos, London
154. Palmer, M. (1992) Dancing to Armageddon, Aquarian/Thorsons, London An exploration, via science and religion, of how to fuse the spiritual and physical stories of human development and our future.
155. Parkin, S. (2000) 'Sustainable development: The concept and the practical challenge', Civil Engineering, vol 138, November, paper 12398, pp 3-8
156. Pearce, F. (2007) When the Rivers Run Dry, Bantam, London
157. Porritt, J. (2000) Playing Safe: Science and the Environment, Thames & Hudson, London A brief and enjoyable excursion through (mostly) the politics of science and how it has variously ignored or misinterpreted its role in safe-guarding the environment and supporting sustainable development.
158. Porritt, J. (2006) Capitalism: As if the World Matters, Earthscan (paperback for US edition 2007, also Earthscan), London A deeper insight into the different sorts of capital that matter in the world, and the challenges of change.
159. Postel, S. and Richter, B. (2003) Rivers for Life, Island Press, Washington DC Excellent on the importance of protecting watersheds and the dangers of failing to arrest the rate of degradation.
160. Putnam, R. (2000), Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY The great title conjures an image of lonely people going bowling on their own instead of in convivial teams and leagues and serves well to examine the drop in participation in community and democratic life in America, why it has happened and how it may be reversed.
161. Randers, J. and Meadows, D. (2005) Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update, Earthscan, London
162. Ravetz, J. (2006) The No-nonsense Guide to Science, New Internationalist, London 'Post-normal science' (enquiry that is issue driven, where facts are uncertain and values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent) means recognizing the need of multiple perspectives from science and the affected public.
163. Real World Coalition and Jacobs, M. (1996) The Politics of the Real World, Earthscan, London What the UK NGOs recommended the incoming administration should do-sadly still salient.
164. Real World Coalition, Christie, I. and Warburton, D. (eds) (2001) From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World, Earthscan, London Another good overview of sustainability from the point of view of UK NGOs.
165. Rees, M. (2003) Our Final Century, William Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH A far-reaching (literally) exploration of the question: Will the human race survive the 21st century? The Astronomer Royal joins the green movement in explosive fashion. Not a solutions-oriented book, but it ends contemplating the odds that our biosphere is 'the unique abode of intelligent and self aware life within our Galaxy'.
166. Reich, R. B. (2007) Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life, Knopf, New York, NY Of the many critiques of capitalism, this is one I like a lot-it tackles head-on the intertwined world of business and government.
167. Riddle, J. M. (1992) Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Rennaissance, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
168. Robèrt, K.-H, Basile, G, Broman, G, Byggeth, S, Cook, D, Haraldsson, H, Johansson, L, MacDonald, J, Ny, H, Oldmark, J. and Waldron, D. (2004) Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden A bit techie, but one of the first course books devoted to sustainability. Light on the leadership side.
169. Robertson, J. (1978) The Sane Alternative: A Choice of Futures, James Robertson, Cholsey One of the earliest syntheses of environmental and social outcomes as goals for progress, the SHE (sane, humane, ecological) economy is explained along with strategies for change, and scenarios should we choose differently.
170. Rosenzweig, P. (2007) The Halo Effect, Free Press, New York, NY
171. Rowe, W. D. (1977) The Anatomy of Risk, Wiley, New York, NY
172. Sandel, M. (2009) Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, Allan Lane, London A brilliant book based on Sandal's Reith lectures. So well written it is a page turner.
173. Sarkissian, W, Vaida, S, Hofer, N, Shore, Y. and Wilkinson, C. (2009) Kitchen Table Sustainability, Earthscan, London Lots about how to do community engagement and local initiatives to tackle unsustainability.
174. Schumacher, E. F. (1973) Small is Beautiful, Abacus (1975 edition), London Straplined: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, this book provided important intellectual underpinning for the green movement's view of the economy.
175. Schumacher, E. F. (1977) A Guide for the Perplexed, Jonathon Cape, London (see Vintage 1995 edition) A philosophical map for navigating the massive change implicit in being on the wrong path of progress, though understanding four fields of knowledge-my inner world, the inner world of others, myself as an objective phenomenon, the world around me-and ensuring all are properly 'cultivated'.
176. Schumpeter, J. (1942) Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Harper and Brothers, New York, NY
177. Scruton, R. (2002) The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat, ISI Books, Wilmington, DE
178. Sen, A. (2000) Development as Freedom, Anchor Books, New York, NY In a world where deprivation is to be found even in the richest countries, Sen argues that social commitment to individual freedom is the route to justice and equality.
179. Sen, A. (2006) Identity and Violence, London, Allen Lane A great explanation of why our search for identity, as an individual or a culture, does not need to be prosecuted through conflict and war. How to obtain peace by respecting the humanity and diversity of others rather than resorting to tribalism. Should be read by every head of state and newspaper editor in the world.
180. Sen, A. (2009) The Idea of Justice, Allan Lane, London A synthesis of Sen's thinking to date. A philosophical tour de force from an economics Nobel Prize winner. Start with this one-though it is longer and you'll need to concentrate.
181. Senge, P. (1990) The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Doubleday, New York, NY A seminal text on systems thinking to create a learning organization.
182. Senge, P. (1990) The Dance of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations, Nicholas Brearley, London Full of ideas, tools, stories about managing organizational change in a systemic way. Lots of good insights but hard to pull out a practical process to use straightaway.
183. Seregeldin, I. and Steer, A. (eds) (1994) Making Development Sustainable: From Concepts to Action, World Bank, Washington DC An early exploration of the role of different types of capital in an economy.
184. Sims, A. and Smith, J. (eds) (2008) Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?, Constable & Robinson, London Uneven contributions, but some zingers, including Adair Turner on Dethroning Growth.
185. Sire, J. W. (1997) The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL Although he comes from an unapologetically Christian perspective, his catalogue of world views focuses on philosophical rather than political 'isms'-from Christian Theism via Nihilism to Postmodernism. I particularly enjoyed his critique of the New Age.
186. Skolimowski, H. (1981) Eco-philosophy: Designing New Tactics for Living, Marion Boyars, New York, NY An early influence on philosophers and the green movement.
187. Smil, V. (2006) Technological Innovations and Their Consequences, Oxford University Press, Oxford Contains some technical drawings, equations and acronyms but refreshingly interdisciplinary in describing key technological changes, for example, in the speed and mode of transporting stuff and information. Directly tackles sustainability concerns and reflects on accomplishments and concerns of where we are now, as well as outlooks for the future.
188. Smith, A. (1759, 2006 edition) The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Dover Philosophical Classics, New York, NY
189. Smith, A. (1776, 1986 edition) The Wealth of Nations Books I-III, Penguin Classics, London
190. Spretnak, C. (1997) Resurgence of the Real, Addison Wesley, New York, NY Described as 'nothing less than a spiritual guidebook for life in the next millennium' this book sweeps wide over history, literature and spirituality to make a 'post modern' analysis of how we need to 'get real' for the future. The bibliography leads the reader to a range of intellectual and spiritual traditions and even sideways into green politics!
191. Stern, N. (2006) The Economics of Climate Change, HMSO, London Had finance departments around the world shaking in their boots, but at last able to see climate change described in their own language.
192. Stern, N. (2009) A Blueprint for a Safer Planet, The Bodley Head, London A heroic but unsuccessful attempt to influence the climate change negotiations with costs and policies for mitigation and adaptation.
193. Stibbe, A. (ed) (2009) The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, Green Books, Totnes Collection of essays on many aspects of sustainability. Mostly from writers and academics, raising hope universities are beginning to pick up their responsibilities.
194. Stiglitz, J. (2006) Making Globalization Work, Allan Lane, London Another Economics Nobel Prize winner, making a positive case for reform of organizations like the UN, IMF and the World Bank to overcome international financial instability-ahead of the crash!
195. Stirling, A. (1999) On Science and Precaution in the Management of Technical Risk, Final Report to the EC Forward Studies Unit, European Commission, Brussels
196. Stogdill, R. M. (1974) Handbook of Leadership: A Survey of the Literature, Free Press, New York, NY
197. Tett, G. (2009) Fools Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe, Little Brown, London An assistant editor of the Financial Times takes a social anthropologist's eye (because she is one) to the debacles in the financial markets. A no-jargon, gripping tale of how shockingly bad management, laissez-faire leadership and zero understanding of human relationship dynamics brought the global economy to its knees.
198. Thaler, R. H. and Sunstein, C. R (2008) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, and London This book describes how knowing how people think means 'choice environments' can be designed to make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their family and society. Lots of good examples of how neither we nor the market necessarily know best instinctively, and a nudge in the right direction is in fact welcome as choices reach bamboozling levels of complexity.
199. Tudge, C. (2000) The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of all the creatures that have ever Lived, Oxford University Press, Oxford
200. Turner, A. (2001) Just Capital: The Liberal Economy, Macmillan, London
201. Uglow, J. (2002) The Lunar Men: The Friends who made the Future, Faber & Faber, London
202. UNDP (2005) International Cooperation at a Cross Roads: Aid, Trade, and Security in an Unequal World, Oxford University Press, New York, NY and Oxford
203. Vernadsky, V. I. (1945, 1998, in Russian 1926) The Biosphere, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY
204. Victor, P. A. (2008) Managing without Growth: Slower by Design not Disaster, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham A Canada-centric book with a lot of universally useful knowledge and discussions. Falls into equations and policies at the end, but that does not diminish its utility to the nonspecialist reader.
205. Warburton, D. (ed) (1998) Community and Sustainable Development, Earthscan, London
206. Weizsäcker, von E, Lovins, A. B. and Lovins, L. L. (1997) Factor Four: Doubling Wealth-Halving Resource Use: A Report to the Club of Rome, Earthscan, London
207. Weizsäcker, von E, Hargroves, K, Smith, M, Desha, C. and Stasinopoulus, P. (2009) Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy Through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity, Earthscan, London
208. Western, S. (2008) Leadership: A Critical Text, Sage, Los Angeles, CA An attempt to develop a critical theory approach to leadership that doesn't really come off.
209. Williamson, O. (1999) The Mechanisms of Governance, Oxford University Press, Oxford Far from easy, but an important book that melds organizational theory with transactioncost economics to understand why a range of internal factors means everything is more complicated than institutions care to think.
210. Wilsdon, J. and Willis, R. (2004) See-through Science: Why Public Engagement Needs to Move Upstream, Demos, London
211. Wilsdon, J, Wynne, B. and Stilgoe, J. (2005) The Public Value of Science: Or How to Ensure that Science Really Matters, Demos, London Looks at how science can benefit by including the public 'upstream' in the definition and design of research projects. A very readable pamphlet.
212. Wilson, E. O. (1992) The Diversity of Life, Penguin Books, London A best-seller and perfect introduction to how evolution gets its resilience. Final section on human inpact includes an environmental ethic.
213. Wilson, E. O. (1998) Consilience, Little Brown, London Full of reasons why the real bottom line is not economic, but ecological. The biological case for sustainability, if you like, but done in a way that synthesizes knowledge in search of wisdom rather than just catalogues it.
214. Wilson, E. O. (2002) The Future of Life, Little Brown, London
215. Wirtenberg, J, Russell, W. G. and Lipsky, D. (eds) (2009) The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook, AMACOM Books, New York, NY Written very much from an American business case perspective. Lots of jargon but with tips and examples of current good practice to stir ideas.
216. Woodin, M. and Lucas, C. (2004) Green Alternatives to Globalisation, Pluto Press, London
217. Worldwatch Institute(annually) Vital Signs 200X-200X: The Trends that are Shaping our Future, Earthscan, London An annual publication that is very good for keeping track of changes in different trends. See also the annual State of the World from Worldwatch. Although US focused, lots of good information and ideas. Impeccably researched.
218. World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, Oxford Very influential with its definition of sustainable development: 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' is still widely used.