Transpersonal Leadership in Action

5Sustainable leadershipRewire your brain for sustainable success

Sue Coyne

DOI: 10.4324/9781003150626-7

Overview

In this chapter, we explore why we need a more sustainable approach to leadership and how we can shift from the old mechanistic view of leadership to a more sustainably effective one that is appropriate for the 21st century. It helps leaders become more relevant and less obsolete and lead in a way that sustains rather than drains themselves and others.

Introduction

At a conference on trust that I attended in London in October 2014, Sir Bob Geldof observed the following: “100 years later we are back where we were, a new world struggling with an old structure that is no longer fit for purpose. If businesses want to be successful, ...