Author: Dean Sanders and Stuart McLachlan

This is an edited extract from The Adventure of Sustainable Performance: Beyond ESG Compliance to Leadership in the New Era, by Dean Sanders and Stuart McLachlan, published by Wiley. The extract is taken from page 107, and then pages 114-117. It is now undeniable that our prevailing systems (strongholds) have been designed to assert control over the natural world. These strongholds wilfully dismiss destructive externalities connected with the ways in which we live and work and have reaped the far-reaching negative impacts we have described. We do believe that it is possible to find operational and economic models that are…