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Global Transformation as a Collective Leadership Challenge

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This chapter sets the scene for understanding transformative change in the context of sustainability as a stewarding task and a collective leadership challenge. It explores the current leadership discourse with a focus on collectives and reviews the discourse on global transformation. The chapter identifies where these discourses point to leadership as the transformative capacity of a collective of distributed actors across institutions. It argues that a paradigm shift toward a radically new way of seeing reality based on a systems view of life is needed in order to conceptualize stewarding transformative change for sustainability.

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    The project is embedded in a 10-year social science-based research program under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project (Working papers, Earth System Governance, 2009). Source: www.earthsystemgovernance.org. Accessed on 15th April 2017.

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    See The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (http://www.grli.org).

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Kuenkel, P. (2019). Global Transformation as a Collective Leadership Challenge. In: Stewarding Sustainability Transformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03691-1_3

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