Publications
BOOKS
Storytelling for Sustainability: Deepening the Case for Change, Jeff Leinaweaver, PhD
Just Published by Do Sustainability In the worlds of strategic sustainability, corporate social responsibility and social change, more and more attention is being focused on the importance of storytelling as a key component in one’s toolkit for change. In this Do Short, we’ll explore which stories and ways of storytelling lead to success and which ways lead to failure. Readers will develop a sense of why the ancient human practice of storytelling is relevant today as a key skill for influencing and shaping a better and more sustainable world. We will also explore through some practical exercises how to become better storytellers in order to communicate, advocate, educate, organize, and transmit resonance and relational authenticity. Storytelling for Sustainability: Deepening the Case for Change offers a comprehensive primer on storytelling as a whole-brain practice, where storytelling is as much an intrapreneurial exercise as it is an approach to strategic communication and social change. |
Storytelling Narrative Marginality – Becoming a Global Human in Storytelling Organizations, editor David Boje, Routledge Press
Organization and management studies have overwhelmingly focused to date on rational narrative structures with beginnings, middles, and ends, where narrative has proved to be a handy concept in qualitative studies. Far less attention is given however to the more spontaneous and ‘non-staged’ storytelling that occurs in organizations. |
ARTICLES
- Is corporate sustainability reporting a great waste of time? January 2015 - What could be less sustainable than reams of reporting that no one reads? That’s the concern voiced in a recent report by strategic thinktank and consultancy SustainAbility, which warns that companies are wasting time and money creating sustainability reports that aren't effective.
- Companies’ conflict mineral reports are mixed as SEC deadline passes. June 2014 - While some US companies are racing to the wire to file their first ever conflict minerals reports, due to the US Securities and Exchange Commission today, those filed so far range greatly in clarity and detail.
- Conflict minerals reporting deadline: is your business ready? May 2014 - The looming deadline for disclosing the use of conflict minerals from the Congo is generating mixed responses from US businesses and experts. Here are some reactions and advice.
- SEC: US companies not required to identify products with conflict minerals. May 2014 - The US Securities and Exchange Commission has halted part of its controversial rule - at least for now - but will still require some company disclosures starting 2 June.
- How UC Berkeley MBAs beat the market with a socially responsible fund. April 2014 - The University of California at Berkeley has a long tradition of activism and social engagement, but few would expect to see its MBA program embracing that ethos.
- Are there carcinogens in your soda? January 2014 - Consumer Reports has asked the California Attorney General to investigate its claims that PepsiOne and Malta Goya sodas contain concerning levels of chemical linked to cancer.
- Might new financial tools translate ESG data into real-world loss and profit? November 2013 - Materiality matters: Data collected from ESG factors can say a lot about a company's management – and the Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters new data terminals mean to say it all.