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This book is for those who want their company to prevail in the coming post-petroleum era. Using charts, diagrams, tables, and checklists, the book's principal aim is to make understandable to senior and middle managers issues surrounding the search for sustainable development - and the central role business organizations of every kind can play in the search for new and appropriate solutions.
Vitality and Renewal is appropriate for any manager eager to provide 21st century leadership within his or her sphere of influence. It is also appropriate for those working as agents of change in consulting and training as well as environmental organizations which face their own challenges as awareness of the predicament grows.
List of contents
Foreword
Introduction
Executive Summary
The PredicamentThe Nature of the Predicament
How People Are Responding
Values and Beliefs
The Opportunities for BusinessWhat Is Sustainable Development?
Tactical Responses to the Challenge
Strategic Responses to the Challenge
Self DevelopmentWho Is in Charge?
Approaches to Management Organizational Change
Personal Growth and Organizational Learning
Making It HappenProcessess and Techniques
Getting the Most from the Process
Appendix I: An Environmental Checklist
Appendix II: Organizations with Environmental Policies
Appendix III: Business Charter for Sustainable Development
Appendix IV: The Earth Summit Agreement
Bibliography
Index
About the author
COLIN HUTCHINSON, formerly chairman of the management consultants Sheppard Moscow, is an independent environmental management consultant specializing in strategic approaches to individual and organizational change. While with Sheppard Moscow he led major assignments with companies such as Shell UK, Lloyds Bank, British Petroleum, Rank Xerox, ICI, and Hewlett Packard. His lifelong interest in the environmental threat to the Earth's life support system led him in 1971 to become chairman of the Conservation Society, and in 1978 chairman of their educational charity. He was a director for the Environment Council from 1992 to 1994 and chairman of their Environmental Resolve Committee. He is currently a director of the Global Action Plan UK Limited and also a council member of AMED, the Association for Management Education and Development.
