How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World. The latest book by renowned business and sustainability consultant Alan AtKisson, author of Believing Cassandra and co-author of The Natural Advantage of Nations is the ideal entry point for leaders and innovators in all organizations for understanding and instituting change towards sustainability
ISIS?Indicators, Systems, Innovation, Strategy?is a potent method for creating a whole-systems view, strategizing successfully for innovative change and accelerating progress towards sustainability. ISIS is an approach that builds on fifteen years of successful practice, with case studies from around the world, and easy-to-use training and planning tools that translate theory into practice in a way that provides both practical advice and inspiration.
Like Believing Cassandra, this book is essential, transformative reading for leaders in business, organizations, and government, and professionals of all description in all sectors who are working on whole systems change in pursuit of strategies for innovation, sustainability, and profitability, as well as students in business and management.
Alan AtKisson is currently International Transition Director of Earth Charter International, which promotes adoption and use of the Earth Charter worldwide, and President and CEO of The AtKisson Group, an international sustainability consultancy to business and government. He is also the author of the best selling Believing Cassandra (Chelsea Green, 1999) and co-author of The Natural Advantage of Nations (2006).
Contents
Prologue: Isis, Osiris, and Us ? Author’s Preface: A Friendly Warning Before Reading This Book ? The ISIS Agreement: Executive Summary and User’s Guide ? The World Witnesses a Murder ? The Golden Coffin ? The Not-So-Secret Agents of ISIS ? Creating the New ‘New Economy’ ? The Planet-Managers ? Welcome to the Rest of Your Life ? A Compass for the 21st Century ? A Pyramid for ISIS ? Into the Amoeba ? An Army for Sustainability ? How to Measure What You Treasure ? Thinking is Linking ? Playing with Power ? Making it Happen ? Epilogue: The Golden Child
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd. Alan AtKisson April 2008 240 pp., 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", tables & figures
The ISIS Agreement 
How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World. The latest book by renowned business and sustainability consultant Alan AtKisson, author of Believing Cassandra and co-author of The Natural Advantage of Nations is the ideal entry point for leaders and innovators in all organizations for understanding and instituting change towards sustainability