John Jacob Zucker Gardiner

Paper presented at the first Working Collaboratively for Sustainability
International Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, April 12, 2009.

Global sustainability – social, economic, and environmental—is best served by an emergent leadership metaphor that serves the triple bottom lines of profits, people, and planet of the 21st century global corporation: transcendent leadership. Introduced as a global imperative at the 2007 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland (Useem, 2007, pp. 1-2), …