Creative Social Change : Leadership for a Healthy World.

Front Cover -- Creative Social Change -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments: From the Editorial Team -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- "L'Imagination au Pouvoir!" -- Our Shared Dream -- The Design of This Book -- References -- Part I: The Ground: Foundations from Thought Leaders -- Background: Organizational Health as Seen in the Social Sciences -- Providing Roots for the Dialogue -- References -- Chapter 2 Visions of a Healthy World: Views from Thought Leaders -- Underlying Questions and Frameworks -- The Contributors: Wise Voices from the Social Sciences -- Margaret Wheatley: Healthy Organizations Rely on the Human Spirit -- Health and Wholeness -- "I Want Leadership to Become a Noble Profession Again" -- Warriors for the Human Spirit -- Preventing a Downward Spiral -- Otto Scharmer: Health Is Always a Question of "Whose Health?" -- Start with Yourself -- Does the World Become Healthier over Time? -- Moocs, Education, and Transformation -- Ed Schein: Health, Cultures, and Relationships -- "The Human Being Is Not a Biological Islet" -- The Role of Leadership -- Identity, Purpose, and Change -- Ellen Langer and Mindfulness -- "Get Outside Your Own Culture" -- Robert E. Quinn: Becoming an Initiator of Change -- Contrasting Beliefs Create Contrasting Realities -- Real Leaders Transform Systems -- Being a Change Leader -- Transformational Leadership -- "We Are Designed to Be Purpose-Driven Organisms" -- Peter Senge: We Need a New Mythos … -- What Is Leadership? -- Creating a Healthier World -- Beyond Heroic Leadership -- An Overview of the Interviews and Key Themes -- What Is the Role of Leaders with Regard to Health? -- Implications for conceptualizing health -- The Current Situation in the World with Regard to Organizational and Societal Health? -- Implications of their views of the current situation.

What Is Essential in Leadership Development? -- Implications of their views on leadership development -- Shared Perspectives and Common Themes -- Health -- Healthy organizations -- The leaders' role -- Leadership development -- An Emergent Model of Systemic Health -- Wholeness -- Interdependence/relatedness -- Inclusion/inclusivity -- Removing toxins/rebalancing -- Emergence -- Closing Thoughts and Questions -- References -- Part II: Air and Water: What Flows Lives -- Chapter 3 Reframing Organizational and Social Change: From Domination to Partnership -- The Social Context of Leadership -- Challenging Traditions of Domination -- The Partnership Alternative -- Humanizing Organizations - and Society -- Moving Forward or Back -- Tools for Creative Leadership -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 4 Ecological Consciousness, Moral Imagination, and the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development -- Political Decision-Making and the Systems Thinking Iceberg -- The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development -- Whistler, Canada: An Early Role Model for Sustainable Communities -- Moral Imagination, Climate Change Denial, and the "American Way of Life" -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Use it or Lose it: About Leadership Ethics in the United Nations -- The United Nations - An Organization and an Idea Based on Universal Ethics -- Leadership, Moral Choice, Moral Clarity -- Personal Character, Ethics, and Purgatory -- The Unique Case of Leadership Within the United Nations -- No One Is an Island -- References -- Chapter 6 Leadership for the Greater Good: Developing Indicators of Societal and Environmental Health -- The Greater Good: A Once and Future Idea -- A Capitals Approach to Measuring the Well-Being of the Whole -- Measuring What Matters -- Developing Indicators of the Greater Good.

Navigating into the Future, Together -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7 Developing Relational Leadership in Africa -- From Leader-Centric to Relational Leadership -- Methodologies for Cocreating Leadership Development -- Developing Leadership in Eastern Africa -- Partnership with World Vision Ethiopia -- Leadership Logics at World Vision -- Strategic Lessons for Leadership Development from Ethiopia -- Look for Essentials -- Develop Both Individual and Collective Aspects of Leadership -- Collaborate, Inquire, and Design -- Make Leadership Ontology and Epistemology Explicit -- References -- Part III: Seeds and Plants: Local Case Studies -- References -- Chapter 8 The Inner Practice of Community Development: Embracing Deep Democracy in Mexico -- Deep Democracy, the Change Agent, and Emergence -- The Fieldwork in Peri-Urban Mexico -- Story from the Classroom: Preparing the Change Agents -- The Story from the Field: A Personal Reflection on Practice -- El Tráfico: Letting Go of Judgment -- Llano Grande: Deep Listening and Staying Calm -- Outcomes -- A New Experience of Teamwork -- Deeper Connection with the Community -- Personal Change -- Impacts -- Individual Change -- Community relationships -- Workplace relationships -- Teacher-student relationships -- Institutional Changes -- Sensing the Emergent Edge -- Summary and Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9 Sumak Kawsay among Indigenous Women Leaders of Ecuador -- Understanding the Andean Concept of Sumak Kawsay -- The Ecuadorian and Andean Contexts -- Female Leadership in Contemporary Ecuador -- Data and Methodology -- Sumak Kawsay in Ecuadorian Grassroots Organizations -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10 Kiwi Ways of Leading: How 30 New Zealand Government Chief Executives Are Encouraging Healthier Cultures -- The Impact of New Zealand's History.

The Observational Methodology -- How New Zealand CEs Encourage Healthy Organizational Cultures -- Being Culturally Aware -- Chief Executives Leadership Practices -- Shaping Culture through People -- Re-Forming Teams, Building Trust, and Story Telling -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 11 "The Arts Are Not a Luxury": The Arts as a Source of Community in California -- The Carmel Bach Festival: A Prototype of a Local Arts Organization -- Brief History: Changing the Community Through Arts -- Current Leadership: Local Vision and Broad Background -- Community Engagement: Programs, Initiatives, and a New Concert Hall -- From Exclusion to Inclusion Through Art -- References -- Chapter 12 Strengthening Communities through Adaptive Leadership: A Case Study of the Kansas Leadership Center and the Bang... -- Large-Scale Leadership Development as a Response to a Changing World -- Adaptive Leadership as an Approach to Communal Transformation -- Case Studies on Two Continents -- The Kansas Leadership Center -- Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC) -- Examples of Impact -- BYLC: Indira Rahman's Journey -- KLC: Addressing Poverty in Greenwood County -- Adaptive Leadership as an Approach to Strengthening Communities -- Closing Thoughts -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 13 Women and Leadership in Rwanda, Emerging Transformation: The Spiritual, Social, and Political Dimensions of Tran... -- Holding onto the Legacy of Rwanda's Women Peace Builders by ÉLIANE UBALIJORO -- Tikkun Halev/Tikkun Olam: Creating the Conditions for Posttraumatic Growth by JACQUELINE UWIZEYIMANA BAGWIZA with ÉLIANE UB... -- Transmuting Suffering and Inequality into Hope and Opportunity -- Finding a Sense of the Self Through Drumming as a Collective Healing Activity -- References -- Chapter 14 A Living, Healthy World: Implications for Thought and Action.

Starting the Dialogue: The "Ground" and Further Nourishment -- From Conceptualization to Action -- In Concluding -- Reference -- About the Contributors -- Index.

What is our role in creating healthy organizations and a healthy world? This book fosters a unique dialogue on the interconnections between leadership, sustainability, the long-term viability of the planet, and organizational development. Together, these areas of research and action can contribute to creating a healthy society.

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