BSR Insight | Overheard at Ethos: Sustainability Requires Holistic Approach
Last week, 1,700 representatives from business, NGOs, government, and academic institutions gathered in São Paulo, Brazil, to discuss sustainability at the Ethos Institute's International Conference 2010. The conversations and debates at the event focused on the need for a systems redesign—and the type of leadership that change requires.
In the session "New Leadership for a Green, Inclusive, and Responsible Economy," MIT's Otto Scharmer emphasized the importance in having leaders directly experience ground-level challenges in order to create the systematic changes needed for a truly sustainable economy.
"We need to have the type of leadership that transforms the system from one of ego to one of ecosystem."
—Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT, founding chair of the Presencing Institute, founding member of the MIT Green Hub, and author of Theory U, speaking at the Ethos International Conference 2010 (May 12, 2010)
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