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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN LEADERSHIP
THE
LEADERSHIP
MOMENT
Professor Gareth Jones is a organisations can embrace these thanks to advances in neuro science
leading expert in organisational challenges? that the fully rational human being
design, culture, leadership and First, we need leaders with passion - is emotional. Emotions are not the
change. He talks here about who care deeply about doing business froth on the cappuccino, they are the
world class leadership and the in a way which delivers long term coffee.
qualities needed for sustainable sustainable development. Passion is a
development with passion and strange word, closely associated with Second, we need leaders driven by
commitment to values. our emotions. Too often business a clear commitment to values. Values
based leadership can supply the
Ihave just had a leadership epiphany. treats emotions as an inconvenient glue in organisations where the old
Having recently come back from impediment to rational decision integrators - hierarchies, careers and
the United Nations Global Compact making. But of course, we now know boundaries – are breaking down.
in New York I’ve been forced to
reconsider what leadership looks like Mouthing the values is insufficient.
in the face of huge global challenges. Leaders must live them and
The Global Compact was established exemplify a vision of the future.
by Kofi Annan nearly 20 years
ago. It is the UN’s attempt Finally, what kind of business
to engage with business organisations can
in pursuit of urgently deliver sustainable
required sustainable development?
development goals. The Surely we must
seventeen goals include grasp the limits
“zero hunger”, “gender of short termism
equality”, ”climate action”, - the tyranny
“reduced inequalities”, of quarterly
“responsible consumption reporting is an
and production”. These obstacle to making
goals are heroic and absolutely the kind of radical
necessary if humankind is to have a changes which are so
future. imperative.
I left New York asking myself what
kind of leaders can deliver this Great businesses, with passionate
agenda? What kind of business and moral leaders can make
sustainable development a reality.
Without them, we face a grim future.
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