The Pursuit of Sustainable Leadership

Sustainable Leadership (SL) encompasses the broad roles and responsibilities of leadersthat cut across the whole organization and the entire extended enterprise from horizon tohorizon. The underpinnings of SL require strategic leaders and professionals to playleading roles in dealing with critical issues affecting business and people. This includesresolving the related problems and challenges and participating in the development anddeployment of sustainable solutions based on the full spectrum of needs and expectationsof society, market spaces, and business environment. SL necessitates openness,inclusiveness, innovativeness, and fair mindedness. It requires strategic leaders to create anextraordinary vision and to fulfill their missions to develop, support, and promote theextended enterprises and the market spaces served by their businesses.Sustainable strategic leaders ensure that their organizations and enterprises are fully capable and responsive to externaldimensions and market spaces and have the potential to be successful. They serve and support markets, customers, andstakeholders and provide them with solutions and successful outcomes. In addition, strategic leaders fulfill their broadresponsibilities to society through positive actions to improve the social and economic fabric of the human world and tomitigate the negative impacts across all of the social, economic, and environmental aspects.The Pursuit of Sustainable Leadership (PSL) involves the ongoing learning and development of business leaders andstudents to become true strategic leaders who have the proper principles, philosophies, values, capabilities and perspectivesfor achieving sustainable success. True leaders are dedicated to their endeavors andnever stop making transitions and transformations to higher levels of sophistication.The PSL is based on a learning the foundations of leadership, having the rightprinciples, developing personal philosophies, using broad perspectives, adaptingopenness and honesty, engaging in continuous learning, embracing lifelongpersonal and professional development, and being a sustainable leader. The key tosuccess involves acquiring new knowledge, seeking profound experiences,expanding one’s understanding of realities and possibilities, and developingpositive mindset through demanding roles and responsibilities, interactiveengagements and profound learning.CONTENTS