ABSTRACT
John and Paul are both CEOs of manufacturing businesses. John is proud of his business and is focused on maximizing profits for his shareholders. He wishes the federal government would have less regulation because meeting these standards is costly and decreasing his profits. He realizes that his business is impacted by local and global businesses and political, environmental, and social dynamics. Paul studied how other manufacturing plants up and down the river were disposing their waste and decided to follow it downstream to see what the combined impact was of all these individual businesses decisions. Much of environmental leadership focus has been on the level of strategies, structures, and business operations. Environmental leadership is defined as the choices positional leaders or individual agents of leadership make that result in environmentally sustainable solutions or decisions. If the worldviews became conscious, a positional leader could articulate how they influence the definition, thinking, and practice of environmental leadership for sustainability.
