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This book by leadership and sustainability experts Giles Hutchins and Laura Storm provides an exciting and comprehensive framework for building regenerative life-affirming businesses. It offers a multitude of business cases, fascinating examples from nature’s living systems, insights from the front-line pioneers and tools and techniques for leaders to succeed and…

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2 authors picked Regenerative Leadership as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was impressed by this book because it so clearly explains why the way we think about business, work, and organizations has to change and it shows us how everything is connected.

The system we have known for as long as we can remember is no longer working. On the contrary, it’s harming us, our health, our wellbeing, our planet, and our future. Only by rethinking the way we lead and organize can we secure a future for ourselves and our planet.

The book is visually beautiful, it is life-affirming and full of examples of organizations that are already doing…

Earth Overshoot Day, the day when humanity has used up the resources our planet can regenerate within a year, was in 2022 on the 28th of July.

It means that from that date onwards we have been eating into our children’s future, and that ‘sustaining’ the status quo or even circularity (keeping the resources we take from the planet in circulation for as long as possible) are no longer enough.

Giles and Laura offer a pathway from a mechanistic worldview towards a living system one, with case studies, tools, and all.

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