Articles with tag "Sustainability Transformations"

Understanding the Architecture of Transformations

The Global Goals require recognition of the complex interplay between systemic interventions for the different goals - as well as between the actors and networks they touch. Seeing the 17 goals not only as a technical and political implementation challenge, but also as an invitation to operate with a systems view of life, in a spirit of collective leadership (link to Compass), may advance new thinking and subsequently new practice – that could then become the unstated norm.

Mindshifts Needed for Collective Stewardship of Transformations

Building vital collaboration ecosystems of transformation initiatives around SDG implementation requires creating an emotionally compelling as well as strategically visible link between different initiatives, e.g. from local to global, local to national, or national to global change systems.

Why Patterns are Key to SDG Implementation

The advent of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals already shows that human consciousness has risen to the point that the globality of the challenges has been acknowledged. While negotiated at the UN level, the SDGs have gradually entered the political and administrative arena of every country, to a greater or lesser extent, with many activities and initiatives emerging from civil society to governments to business.

How Can we Build Transformation Systems for Sustainability?

The advent of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals already shows that human consciousness has risen to the point that the globality of the challenges has been acknowledged. While negotiated at the UN level, the SDGs have gradually entered the political and administrative arena of every country, to a greater or lesser extent, with many activities and initiatives emerging from civil society to governments to business.

A Pattern Approach to Transformations

Our current sustainability challenges, such as climate change, environmental degradation, food insecurity, unsustainable human settlements or destructive consumption and production patterns, are all examples of large-scale complex systems challenges.

Overcoming Silo-thinking is paramount for Transformations

We have built a world in which silos – nations, companies, people – compete with each other and world leaders and many of their followers act accordingly

Understanding the quality of stakeholder collaboration

Sometimes life suggests contradictions. On could suggest that in stakeholder collaboration people work together, because they can’t achieve the goal alone. This is surely right. And yet, without suggesting that competition in collaboration is helpful, my experience is that the stronger the collaboration partners, the better the quality of collaboration.

What is Important when Working with Multiple Stakeholders?

The purpose of the Collective Leadership Compass is to guide leaders in advancing transformative collective action for sustainability in complex, often cross-sector and nonhierarchical multi-stakeholder initiatives.

Why do we need collective leadership?

An African proverb that has been cited many times in the last few years says, “If you want to go fast, travel alone, if you want to go far, travel together.” The route to sustainable development is a long and winding road.

From the individual to the collective

Leadership paradigms often refer only to individuals and the expansion of one person's skills. The challenges we face in sustainability initiatives require us to go beyond the individual and build the capacity of groups and systems to move important issues of common concern forward.