Sustainability: The Corporate Challenge of the 21st Century

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Summary: Actioning Sustainabililty
Review: A terrific compilation of contemporary Australian thinking about actioning sustainability. Essential reading for all those involved with transforming organisations around sustainability principles.

Rating:
Summary: Actioning Sustainabililty
Review: A terrific compilation of contemporary Australian thinking about actioning sustainability. Essential reading for all those involved with transforming organisations around sustainability principles.

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Summary: An Excellent Treatment of an Important Subject
Review: Dexter Dunphy and colleagues have written an excellent volume based on their work in Australia pulling together the environmental community and the corporations they criticized to find common ground. They develop a solid framework for assessing sustainability in a sense far broader than just the environment, establishing stages by which corporate and community action can be assessed. Carefully selected examples and cases illustrate their points. Their intellectual framework is similar to the one used to look at diversity here in the United States, and manages to demystify and depoliticize at the same time.

The environmentalist, the corporate social responsibility advocate and the organization development practitioner will all find what they need in this book. The last chapter reads like the proposal for Dexter's latest book, but this one is the place to start.

I can't wait to hear Dexter keynote at the Organization Development Network's Conference in Portland, Oregon in October!