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Developing Leaders Quarterly (DLQ) is published by Ideas for Leaders, the leadership focused publishers that work with the world's premier thinkers around leadership and organizational behaviour related themes. This issue of DLQ explores how organizations can create better conditions within themselves for more sustainable decisions to be aired, shared and taken. The premise for the issue is that the need for greater environmental sustainability is well understood, but getting businesses and other organizations to move beyond a sole focus on profit is very difficult.We strongly maintain the view that profit is essential, but other factors need to be included to ensure sustainability as well - and to do that requires a shift in culture that stems from the organizations leaders.

This issue of Developing Leaders Quarterly explores 'Ecosystem Leadership'. As the context leaders have to operate within becomes ever more complex and the boundaries of their influence ever fuzzier, the skills and mindsets of leaders needs to adapt and change. In a series of five articles we examine ecosystem leadership through a number of lenses: three world-renowned thought leaders from London Business School and Boston Consulting Group bring their insights on 'Winning the Ecosystem Game'; ecosystem researcher and academic Roland Deiser explores 'The Art of Business Ecosystem Leadership' while three senior Siemens executives, (their head of leadership, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, and the CEO of Siemens Avanta) share their experiences. We also have Greg Barnarda, formerly of the World Economic Forum, on his ecosystem research and the need for a different kind of mindset, and Professor Willy Donaldson on the centrality of systems-thinking to successful leadership in ecosystems.This issue also covers other topics: the need for leaders to be connectors not constrainers, from Dr Mark McKergow; Leading Below the Surface from diversity consultant and coach LaTonya Wilkins; Why Biology Matters by Emma Russell; Leadership and Empathy by Martin Best and an exploration of how individual transformation is a prerequisite for organizational reinvention.As well as our usual book reviews and research summaries.