This book focuses on the need of leaders in professional and personal realms to understand the importance of innovative thinking to safeguard sustainability and enhance satisfaction and motivation among stakeholders in organizations. It provides professionals with a set of reflective stances, cautionary points, and roadmaps that enable them to do the right thing. From crisis management to spiritual practices, and from pro-social concepts to social responsibility and sustainability: the common denominator is a collective and concerted effort to develop leadership behaviors and strategies to safeguard generations to come.

Joan Marques serves as Dean and Professor of Management at Woodbury University's School of Business (USA). Her teaching focuses on leadership, ethics, and organizational behavior, and her research pertains to the same areas with specific focus on workplace spirituality and leadership awareness. She has been widely published in prestigious scholarly journals and has authored, co-authored and co-edited more than 30 books on management and leadership topics.

Chapter 1. Awakened Leadership: Leading With Light.- Chapter 2. Mindfulness as a Strategy to Weather Challenges.- Chapter 3. Inclusive Leadership in a Creatively Compelling World.- Chapter 4. Leading Reflectively: Treading the Noble Eightfold Path.- Chapter 5. Innovative Leadership: Tools and Techniques to Acquire Innovative and Inspiring Ideas.- Chapter 6. Transcending Emerging Barriers Through Patience.- Chapter 7. 'the Soft Overcomes the Hard' - Inspirations for Leadership in the 21st Century From Daoism.- Chapter 8. Nurturing Empathy.- Chapter 9. Inclusive Leadership in a Creatively Compelling World.- Chapter 10. Understanding and Reformulating Mental Models.- Chapter 11. Nurturing Sustainability as a Future-Oriented Strategy.- Chapter 12. Letting Go as a Liberation.- Chapter 13. Leading With a Moral Compass.- Chapter 14. Leadership as Merit Making:  the Case of Myanmar and Applications for Western Organizations.- Chapter 15. Living the Power Shift in Business and Beyond: The World Needs a New Understanding of Power.- Chapter 16. Crisis Preparedness as a Sustainability Strategy.- Chapter 17. Imagination and Communication Toward Future Realization.- Chapter 18. Heading for the Future With the Proper Mindset.- Chapter 19. Nurturing Creativity in a Culture of Care.- Chapter 20. Community-Based Responsible Leadership and Social Value Creation in Social Enterprise Context.- Chapter 21. Design Thinking in Contemporary Political Leadership: Lessons Learned From Angela Merkel.- Chapter 22. The Futureperfect Organization-Driven by Quantum-Thinking.