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J Educ Change (2006) 7:105107
DOI 10.1007/s10833-006-0022-3
BOOK REVIEW
Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink, Sustainable Leadership
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2006.
Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid
Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
The literature dealing with academic studies on leadership is vast. Without including books and articles on leadership in print, there are over 1.5 million websites on topics related to leadership, including many focusing on sustainable leadership. The quest for a framework in which leaders can anchor their thought processes for initiating leadership events is the essence of mindful leadership. For mindful educators and leaders, Hargreaves and Fink have offered an original and exciting framework of thinking, doing and living Sustainable Leadership.
The notion of sustainability is powerful and is applied across many elds of development. While there is a vast corpus of literature on administration, management, leadership and even entrepreneurship, there is a dearth of information in the area of sustainable leadership. An early denition of sustainability suggests: [an ability] ... to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland Report of the World Commission on Environments and Development in 1987. Our Common Future. New York: United Nations General Assembly). The prominence given to the international agenda to think about and commit to sustainability of our environment highlights the necessity of promoting sustainability in all other areas of lives and development. Hargreaves and Fink have done just that in the elds of leadership, education, change and human and institutional development. It is tting that Hargreaves and Finks book is launched in the year the United Nations launched the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 20052014.
Hargreaves and Fink have made intellectual and practical connections between...