Forest fires, floods, social injustice, and public health crises are rampant across the globe. Sustainability acknowledges that the challenges the world faces today are connected systemically. Sustainability can be a powerful tool to catalyze solutions for a future that is resilient, regenerative, just, and equitable. However, there must be a shift in the world’s current systems to integrate sustainability throughout society. Reimagining Systems for a Sustainable Future provides a...

Forest fires, floods, social injustice, and public health crises are rampant across the globe. Sustainability acknowledges that the challenges the world faces today are connected systemically. Sustainability can be a powerful tool to catalyze solutions for a future that is resilient, regenerative, just, and equitable. However, there must be a shift in the world's current systems to integrate sustainability throughout society. Reimagining Systems for a Sustainable Futureprovides a ...

We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find...

"A field manual for change agents on how to build bridges across differences and move from talk to action." —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling authorThink about the last time you tried to talk with someone who didn't already agree with you about issues that matter most. How well did it go?These conversations are vital, but too often get stuck. They become contentious or we avoid them because we fear they might. What if, in...

Change is everywhere these days—at times it seems like barely controlled chaos. Yet within this turmoil are the seeds of a higher order. When a new system arises from the ashes of the old, science calls the process “emergence.” By engaging it, you can help yourself and your organization or community to successfully face disruption and emerge stronger than ever.In this profound book, Peggy Holman offers principles, practices, and real-world stories to help you work with compassion, ...

Strategies for long-term social impactThis important new book illustrates how to create the social breakthroughs needed to solve urgent global threats such as poverty, disease, and hunger. It then turns to three alternative, but complementary, paths to social breakthrough: social protecting, social exploring, and social advocacy, providing a detailed map of the journey from initial commitment to a world of justice and opportunityExamines the current c...

Leadership is struggleThe question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.Leaders today are surrounded by what Badaracco calls the new invisible hand”-powerful, pervasive markets that touch and shape almost everything. As a result, understan...

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other books about sustainability, this one goes beyond the typical stories that we tell ourselves about repairing the environmental damages of human progress.Through their dialogue and essays that open each section, the aut...

Praise for Transformative Conversations"In the 'superstorm' of writings about the crisis in higher education this little gem of a book stands out like a mindfulness bell. It calls us back to the only thing that truly matters-the energy and wisdom buried in the minds and hearts of dedicated educators." -Diana Chapman Walsh, president emerita, Wellesley College; trustee emerita, Amherst College; member of the MIT Corporation"This boo...

This book introduces ten tools to revolutionize how we work together - in teams, organizations, companies, and communities.If groups are how you get (or don't get) things done, you will find an abundance of insight, inspiration and practical suggestions here. The tools in this book will help you increase trust, unleash collective wisdom, and nurture the joyous ease of "many hands making light work".Each of the ten tools brings a unique perspective. Together they are a compr...

A step-by-step leadership framework for moving from passive DEI awareness to active advocacy, grounded in nearly two decades of consulting practice and hard-won personal experience.Leaders often know inequity exists in their organizations but don't know how to act, or worry they'll get it wrong. This expanded second edition gives them a clear, non-judgmental path forward using the acclaimed Inclusive Leader Continuum, a four-stage model that meets readers wherever ...

Are you asking "what's next?" in your life? This book can help you clarify and plan your next steps. Mid-life Magic guides you through a proven process that combines who you are and what you long for. The result is the magic that transforms possibilities into realities. Creative, practical suggestions & activities Inspiring examples from real lives Informative, motivating and empowering