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Sustainable Leadership is a book for teachers and educators that revamps what most people have come to believe to be conventional leadership, concentrating on seven principles from the single concept of sustainability; depth, length, breadth, justice, diversity, resourcefulness and conservation.

How have companies been doing it? What model has been making the bigwigs such a success in the competing world of global markets and really bringing about change in their corporate structure to withstand the ongoing change of a globalizing economy?

Our educational system could learn something from those key points to success, and this book shows us exactly seven ways how to make that difference right now for a better and more prosperous tomorrow.

Learning, long-term commitment, influence, responsibility, diversity, conservation of energy, building on the past and making sure that any action is beneficial to everyone without harmful side effects to anyone in the future all lay the foundations for this book.

Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink have come together on this book to make sure that this original framework of seven sustainable aspects of leadership, get out there to everyone, compelling the future to change in a more sustainable and healthy way.

That which is left unattended will deteriorate, as the saying goes, this model for educational change is one that speaks of nature and how we as humans shape the environment around us; the constant need for educational renewal through a more sustainable leadership.

This 352-page paperback by Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink was first published by Jossey-Bass in September of 2006, measuring 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 and ships at 14.4 ounces.

Sustainable Leadership is a book about educational renewal, modeling leadership for the long-term and focusing on seven principles that really allow for a more sustainable school leadership.

Sustainable Leadership is not about just one teacher anymore, it is about all of us becoming teachers, and taking on the responsibilities Mother Nature intended for each and every one of us today, for a brighter tomorrow.

Further Reading:
The Seven Principles of Sustainable Leadership

Related:
Sustainable Leadership Award

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