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Empowering Sustainability Leaders: Developing An Authentic Leadership Identity, Heather Diamond
Empowering Sustainability Leaders: Developing An Authentic Leadership Identity, Heather Diamond
Leadership for Sustainability Education Comprehensive Papers
This project focuses on how we are not preparing students to step into much-needed leadership roles. Leadership, when it is taught at all, is typically taught in a traditional and linear way – as a set of skills, a particular role to be filled, or as a hierarchy of one person above others. This type of leadership is not effective in solving today's problems. First, it is fragmented and specialized while the world's problems are complex and interconnected. Second, it is exclusive and disempowering. By defining leadership as a specific role or skill set, fewer people are likely to see …