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Fearless Sustainability (Early Draft)

Make a difference in your organization and community

This book is 83% completeLast updated on 2026-05-14
Jutta Eckstein and MaryLynn Manns

We are often led to believe that sustainability is the responsibility of individuals. However, we can make more impact with systemic change when individuals work to bring sustainability into their organizations and communities. But this is not easy. This book addresses different challenges that can stand in your way and provides possible solutions based on the Fearless Change Patterns. You will become more Fearless in your Sustainability efforts.

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Quotes from early readers:

  • “Congratulations on capturing the obstacles that confront people as they champion sustainability! It's like you have been listening in on the MeetGreen team for years. I have so many people who will be receiving this book from me. Thank you!”~ Nancy J. Zavado, Founder and President of MeetGreen, a Sustainable Event Management Agency
  • “You two have done an amazing amount of work! Wow! This is such an important topic, and your book goes a long way to addressing the many issues surrounding sustainability!!! Wahoo!!!!” ~ Linda Rising, co-author of Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas & More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen
  • “Thanks, MaryLynn and Jutta. The book aligns so well with the Ecosystem Approaches to Systemic Resilience class I am teaching, which focuses on “managing” complex adaptive systems (such as fisheries and ocean planning). And there is much there for me to learn and reinforce in my everyday life and work, too.” ~ Casey King, Director of Sustainability and Lecturer of Environmental Studies, University of North Carolina Asheville
  • “I can see it being very helpful for people! I love how it uses the fearless change patterns within this context.” ~ Joanna Masraff, Digital Sustainability Expert, enabling organizations & teams build sustainable digital products 
  • “This is good stuff and addresses some common questions. I’d be inclined to share this with both the Wellness Group and the Sustainability group at work.” ~ Steve Berczuk, author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration

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Jutta Eckstein

Twenty years of experience in coaching, consulting, training, and development. Main focus on agile processes, patterns, project management, adaptive organizations, and advanced object-oriented design.

Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She holds a M.A. Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. Product-Engineering, and a B.A. in Education. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over fifteen years’ experience in project and product development. She has helped many teams and organizations all over the world to make the transition to an agile approach. She has a unique experience in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. This is also the topic of her books 'Agile Software Development in the Large', 'Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams', and 'Retrospectives for Organizational Change'. She is a member of the Agile Alliance and a member of the program committee of many different European and American conferences in the area of agile development, object-orientation and patterns. At the last election, Jutta has been designated for the Top 100 most important persons of the German IT.

Stay in touch with Jutta:

  • http://linkedin.com/in/juttaeckstein
  • http://jeckstein.com
Leanpub Podcast

Episode 97

An Interview with Jutta Eckstein

MaryLynn Manns

Mary Lynn Manns is the author of two books, Fearless Change and More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen. Her background includes university teaching and she is now a Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina Asheville. She has done numerous presentations and workshops on the topic of change at conferences and in organizations that include Microsoft, amazon.com, Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Avon.  

Contents

Table of Contents

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Introduction

  1. Audience
  2. What is sustainability?
  3. Why does change in an organization have a big impact?
  4. There are no easy answers because it is a complex problem
  5. One step at a time
  6. How the book is structured
  7. How to use this book

Me

  1. I don’t know where to begin
  2. I’m not confident I can do this
  3. I don’t have time
  4. I’m all by myself
  5. I’m having trouble building a team
  6. People don’t have time to help
  7. Others do not see the light
  8. My passion is working against me
  9. I may be pushing too hard
  10. I’m losing my energy
  11. I can’t keep the focus
  12. I’m taking one step forward and three steps back
  13. I see only problems
  14. I’m mad as hell
  15. I’ve done most of the work, but others are recognized for the success

Group

  1. We don’t know enough
  2. Our organization doesn’t make it easy to be sustainable
  3. We have not been authorized to increase sustainability
  4. Change overload
  5. The “politics” in our organization is frustrating us
  6. There’s talk but no action
  7. People aren’t taking this seriously enough
  8. I’m stuck, we’re all stuck
  9. People keep looking for the one right way
  10. Everybody is addressing the problem by themselves
  11. The steps are so small that we aren’t seeing real progress
  12. People are confused by the work we’re doing
  13. Nobody sees our great work

Topic

  1. The problem is so big
  2. The journey won’t be a smooth ride
  3. The big results are seen only in the long term
  4. The main product of my company is not sustainable
  5. The regulations aren’t in place
  6. It’s too costly
  7. There’s only greenwashing
  8. Things are getting hard now
  9. The consequences of our solutions are hitting us
  10. Other stuff is more compelling than sustainability
  11. People believe technology will solve it
  12. This topic is annoying. Blah blah blah
  13. People believe sustainability is woke
  14. People don’t believe in the need for sustainability
  15. The problem cannot be seen
  16. All the problems are solved

Closing

References

Appendix A

  1. Summary of Change Leadership Patterns from More Fearless Change: Strategies for making your ideas happen

Appendix B

  1. Additional Change Leadership Tools

About Jutta Eckstein

About Mary Lynn Manns

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