Pregledni rad
Sustainable Development and Leadership
Vladimir LAY
Sažetak
The available empirical evidence suggests that contemporary
globalisation is unsustainable in the long run unless we
introduce new institutions and new applied policies which will
deal with this global problem. The social order in which
"profit above all else" rules cannot be an efficient regulator of
the balance between material growth and the natural
resources of life. Thus a new direction of development is
needed which will not repeat the mistakes of the old one.
This new direction offers the concept of sustainable
development which presupposes a considerable amount of
social change and which has the character of a global
societal social innovation. The two main pillars of sustainable
development are "learning for sustainability" and "leading
change towards sustainability". This article is dedicated to
"leading towards sustainability" as a conscious and planned
activity of democratically chosen political elites and other
decision-making actors regarding the direction and modes of
modern development. Leadership is by no means the
dictatorship of the individual or cliques, a monopoly, or a
type of "eco-fascism". In the article, the author considers the
question of why sustainable development cannot be
spontaneous, and why it has to be purposefully managed.
Efficient leadership presupposes that the social actors of
leading change towards sustainability have to internalise
sustainability, life preservation and survival as the ultimate value and their special interest, and have to systematically
"feed themselves with new knowledge". The production of
social actors for leadership towards sustainability, a kind of
"production of actors of sustainable future" is the most
important task of modern education systems throughout the
world.
Ključne riječi
sustainable development; leadership towards sustainability
Hrčak ID:
19245
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2007.
Posjeta: 6.062 *