{"id":10466,"date":"2016-12-22T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T11:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/federicofioretto.biz\/en\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2021-07-23T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:02:14","slug":"sustainable-ledership-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/federicofioretto.biz\/en\/sustainable-ledership-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Ledership… What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will close the year 2016 answering a FAQ, something that forcibly happens to all those who open new paths. What is Sustainable Leadership?<\/strong> Well of course the concept stems from two well known – albeit too often misinterpreted – management concepts: Sustainability and Leadership. I won’t go into a critic of the two here: I have done it in many other circumstances. What I have found is that the essential role of leadership is all about the continuous reconciliation of Priorities, Objectives and Needs (see the Home page of this website for this) likewise Sustainability is about the continuous reconciliation of\u00a0 the organization’s responsibilities for Environmental Stewardship, Social Well Being and Economic Prosperity over the long term. Sustainable Leadership is the global reconciliation of the six factors. Cool! So far it’s just about words, concepts. Pretty easy to play with words, my friend…<\/p>\n

But when we get down to business we see that it is not so easy to understand how to reconcile, for instance, a company’s production objective with the interests of a local community, or the need to make profits with the environmental stewardship obligations, or a market crisis with the well being of employees, and so we could continue for days. We need both a theoretical approach and a practical method to resolve the conundrum. Hence The CASE\u00a9 Method, a practical tool for the transformation of conflicts into opportunities, which is built upon sound theory and a lot of field experience. What does The CASE\u00a9 do for making Leadership Sustainable?<\/p>\n

CASE\u00a9 has developed an easy and intuitive way – once you have learnt its basics – to make out the root of any conflict. A conflict, be it between people or objectives, priorities… whatever, is but a symptom of something deeper: a threat to one or more of four universally recognized Basic Needs (J. Galtung). If you really want to overcome the problem you DON’T MANAGE the conflict: YOU TRANSFORM IT \"trasformazione-bisogni-eng\"<\/strong>by addressing those threatened Needs. For such purpose you need to understand where it stems from and deal with it appropriately. CASE\u00a9 not only allows you to strip down any interpersonal conflict to one or more of those only four Basic Needs, but has also described the same four Basic Needs for any organization. This wider view enables the leaders of an organization to implement CASE\u00a9 not only in case of a conflict that is already there and needs transformation, but also as a Decision Making tool in order to prevent the insurgence of conflict and manage Sustainability strategically in any decision making process.<\/p>\n

Finally, CASE\u00a9 for Sustainable Ledership is not only a method, or a framework, for conflict transformation or decision making. Since it changes the point of view of the organization’s leadership on the galaxy of its stakeholders, it brings about a radical, though progressive, change in the leadership and management style of the company at any level. That’s one of the reasons why it is especially suited as an organizational development model, and for companies that wish to become more innovative, more competitive through the development of the human potential that’s latent in their stakeholders’ galaxy. Here some results of implementation of CASE\u00a9 that make for a sound business CASE\u00a9<\/strong>:<\/p>\n