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Sir Mark Moody-Stuart's Responsible Leadership: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics - out 5th March

  • 1.  Sir Mark Moody-Stuart's Responsible Leadership: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics - out 5th March

    Posted 02-18-2014 07:41
    Responsible Leadership
    Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics

     

    By Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

     

    March 2014   366+xxii pp   234 x 156 mm
    hardback   ISBN 978-1-906093-96-9 

     
    List price: £25.00 | €30.00 | $40.00
    Pre-publication offer price: £22.50 | €27.00 | $36.00
     
    (not including p&p)
    PRAISE

     

    Sir Mark Moody-Stuart's brilliance and insight into the complexities and challenges facing international businesses today is a must-read for all in business. The breadth and depth of his unparalleled experiences, shaped by his lifetime of living and working overseas, place him in a category of unique experts who truly understand what it means to lead responsibly in a global world.

    Cynthia Carroll, former Chief Executive, Anglo American plc

     

    This is an insightful book from a business leader who is willing to discuss openly the dilemmas and shortcomings of business in the area of human rights. Mark Moody-Stuart draws on his experience representing oil companies in developing countries and in later years chairing the board of the UN Global Compact. 

    Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice

     

    A wonderful anatomy of what it takes to be a sustainable and ethical business, from one of the earliest and most distinguished proponents of responsible leadership.  

    Paul Polman, Chief Executive, Unilever

    Drawing on a wealth of personal experience, Mark Moody-Stuart's book reminds us of the urgent need for responsible corporate leadership, particularly in the extractives industries... Responsible leadership is necessary to develop trust between governments and business, to create the conditions to lift millions out of poverty, and to promote inclusive growth and protect the environment.

    Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General

     

    Click here to read the introduction (PDF) 

     

    This is the wisest book about corporate responsibility and business ethics ever written. Full of riveting anecdotes of meetings with the great, good and inherently evil, Moody-Stuart reflects on the big issues of our time - climate change, corruption, globalisation, poverty and the financial crisis - through the lens of having lived, considered and acted on how corporations should be led in the twenty-first century.

     

    We hear of dealings with dictators and prime ministers, colleagues and NGOs, rivals and friends. We travel from Syria to Nigeria; Iraq to Downing Street; and from the machinations of the United Nations to those inside the boardroom of Shell. We see Shell's annus horribilis in 1995 unfold through the eyes of an insider, and how Brent Spar and the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa sent shockwaves through the company, resulting in a complete reappraisal of its mission and principles.

     

    We hear about the oil and mining sectors and their complicated development role in areas of conflict and corruption; the way that markets have failed us on climate change and corruption; and how governments need to step up to the global challenges we face. We hear how Deep Water Horizon could have been avoided; what Shell were asked to do by Tony Blair during the UK fuel blockades of 2000 and why they declined; why China is too important to ignore; and why the UN Global Compact is too important to fail.

     
    Responsible Leadership will be out on 5th March. Order before this date and get a 10% discount. Pre-order your copy on our website.

      
    List price: £25.00 | €30.00 | $40.00
    Pre-publication offer price: £22.50 | €27.00 | $36.00

      

    Responsible Leadership will also be available as part of the Sustainable Organization Library (SOL) 2014 from Greenleaf Publishing and GSE Research.   

      

    Click here to find out more about SOL and to request a free trial.
    Dates for Your Diary

    Would you like to hear Sir Mark Moody-Stuart discuss
    Responsible Leadership, and hear lessons from his long career as a pioneering responsible leader? Catch him at one of the events below:

    Sir Mark Moody-Stuart at Ethical Corporation's Responsible Business Summit
    Monday May 19th, 9.15am 

     

    Sir Mark Moody-Stuart at Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts

    Sunday 1st June, 11.30am

     

    Sir Mark Moody-Stuart at Ways with Words, Dartington Hall
    Tuesday 8th July, 11.45am 

     

    Sir Mark Moody-Stuart at Edinburgh Book Festival

    Thursday 21st August, time TBC
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