Leading for Positive Impact

Today's business leaders know that creating social impact while leveraging updated technology and effective leadership is critical for success; their challenge is how to do it and how to strike this balance. The book's step-by-step, visual approach makes it easy to grasp even complex concepts, and the model presented has been designed so you can use it immediately with your teams, for your own development path, and within organizations. It can be applied no matter the industry you are in or the size of the organization you either own, work for, or work with. Based on research, real-world experience, and fascinating stories by the people who have risen through the organizations, it highlights the role of digital technology in enhancing business and social results as a core part of doing business. The book also blends real action with insights from management and sustainability to address the growing trend of emphasizing actual positive impact on business and social results. It offers hands-on strategies on how to achieve this, rather than engaging in empty social washing or greenwashing communication and promises that never come to life and never make an impact beyond fancy slogans and illusions. This book's holistic and dynamic approach to leadership in an ever-evolving world will appeal to established and next-generation leaders, aspiring business leaders, sustainability professionals, strategic consultants, business students, and researchers.

Kristian Pultz Schlosser grew up in a working-class family in Denmark, starting on the floor and working his way up, enabled by people showing him how to get things done. Today a director level professional, strategic leadership expert, and researcher, he holds a PhD from a European university and has led large-scale digital transformations across Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. His work bridges people, technology, and impact, helping leaders turn purpose into real results.

Foreword by Jens Husted. Introduction. Chapter 1: The Enablers Part I: Operations and Innovation, Transparency, and Structure Chapter 2: The Enablers Part II: Ecostystems, Technology, and Transformation Chapter 3: The Enablers Part III: Scaling to Amplify Your Social and Business Results. Chapter 4: Empowerment and Transparency: Claudio Caputo's Competency Matrix. Chapter 5: Beyond the Org Chart: Street Cred and Mandate for Impact Chapter 6: Ecosystems: Build, Sustain, and Enable Impact Through Your Key Players Chapter 7: Mastering the Art of Technology. Chapter 8: Transforming Your Enablers: Getting It Right Chapter 9: Transforming your Enablers: How to Lead Successful Change: Chapter 10: Scaling and Amplifying Impact. Chapter 11: Balancing Operations and Exploring Future Business: The Horizon56 Journey. Chapter 12: Lucy Blount: Achieving Business Impact Through a Social-First Approach - the Art of Seeing the Whole Person. Chapter 13: A Milestone Is Set Bibliography