The Evolutionary Leap to Flourishing Individuals and Organizations

This book offers effective insights on how to learn, perform and transform yourself and your organization.’ Elena Bonfiglioli, Managing Director, Health Industry EMEA, Microsoft‘These accomplished authors have argued and shown how applying a compassionate sense of the collective to decisionmaking can lead spontaneously to the achievement of business goals more efficiently and at various levels. My congratulations to the authors for delivering an inspiring message in an easy-toread, beautifully written book.’Rajesh V. This book presents a solution that should appeal to every CEO who struggles to incentivize their management and workforce to higher levels of creative endeavour and productivity.’Rajiv Kumar, Director, Central Board of Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai‘The authors of The Evolutionary Leap to Flourishing Individuals and Organisations offer a hopeful and prov

The last thing the world needs is yet another book delineating business-induced dangers and damages such as environmental disasters, social inequalities and unethical conduct.And yet, success in achieving sustainable growth - whether for the individual, organization, or the social community - has mostly eluded us. Through this shift, we can move past a definition of sustainability as 'mere resource efficiency and long-term survival', to one of 'sustainability-as-flourishing'. Just as a compass needle moves to magnetic north, our deeply seated behaviours push us back to practices that are familiar and comfortable, even when we have sought to make a change to act in ways that are more sustainable.How can we generate this deep and durable change in our values and beliefs, and thus both in our individual and collective decisions and behaviour at work? How can we unveil the best of our human qualities by learning to raise our consciousness to a more profound perception of ourselves and our relationship with the whole? And what if such a change could lead to an 'evolutionary leap' to

THE CENTER FOR EVOLUTIONARY LEARNING is a non-profit global research network specialized in the study of how individuals and organizations learn to evolve towards ideal models of responsibility and sustainability in their identity and behaviour. The individual authors are Frank Brueck, Michela Cavalletti, Calin Costian, Wolfgang Hackl, Gregoire de Kalbermatten and Maurizio Zollo.