The ISIS Agreement will inspire you and empower you … and help you become a much more effective Change Agent, turning sustainability ideas into real transformation
Since its release in late 2008, The ISIS Agreement has quickly become a “must read” for people who are serious about sustainability. Packed into 300 highly-engaging pages are tools, tips, methods, and secrets for success in moving from idea to implementation, and from inspiration to transformation.
“I read it straight through in one sitting because I couldn’t stop. Insightful, inspirational … even ‘reactionaries’ and ‘curmudgeons’ should read, embrace and enjoy the richness of this book.”
– Herman Mulder, former Senior Executive Vice President of ABN AMRO Bank, and initiator of the Equator Principles
The second volume in the series that started with Alan AtKisson’s bestseller Believing Cassandra (1999), The ISIS Agreement reads like a good novel while it builds your understanding of how to do sustainability in practice.
“The ISIS Agreement is a powerful tonic for hope. With AtKisson’s characteristic wit, this easy-to-read book is a practical guide for how to change the world.”
- Darcy Hitchcock, co-author, The Business Guide to Sustainability
Along the way, you will learn the powerful ISIS Method (Indicators, Systems, Innovation, Strategy) and get introduced to the ISIS Accelerator — tools that help leaders and change agents create a whole-systems view of their organization or community … identify the critical leverage points for innovation … and strategize for rapid and successful action.
“AtKisson’s Accelerator tools and ISIS Method are powerful — I’ve seen them in action. This book is the essential guide, while also being an inspiring and informative read for just about anybody.”
- Hunter Lovins, President and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions; co-author of Natural Capitalism
Who is reading The ISIS Agreement?
Corporate leaders, reorienting their businesses to the new Green Economy and capturing both the profit and the ethical advantage of sustainability
Educators, from China to India to the United States, using the ISIS Method to integrate sustainability into teaching, curriculum, and administration
Government officials at all levels, using the strategic guidance of the ISIS Method and Accelerator frameworks like the “Compass of Sustainability” to help set the right direction in policy and programming
Sustainability professionals and professionals-in-training, of all kinds, from consultants to “Sustainability Officers,” from university professors to university students, seeking new inspiration and the empowerment that comes with mastering the ISIS Method and the principles of effective Change Agentry
Just as they did with Believing Cassandra, people are even giving copies of The ISIS Agreement to their friends and families to help them understand what sustainability is, why it’s important, and how to do something about it … no matter where you are, no matter what your job is. The book reaches across disciplines, and across cultures, to inspire hope and action.
”The ISIS Agreement provides a novel approach to the challenges of sustainable development. AtKisson presents a highly readable case for a sustainable future as still being within our hands, if we can only bring together millennia-old human wisdom with modern systems science.”
-Surendra Shrestha, Director of Strategic Resource Mobilization/Special Initiatives, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The ISIS Agreement helps make complex and urgent topics much easier to grasp, and much easier to do something about. It does not “dumb down” the issues, and it does not “talk down” to the reader. Instead, it lifts you up, so that you can see your place in an exciting and growing global movement of transformation.
“This book is beyond useful — it’s necessary: rigorous, comprehensive, unsentimental, and yet readable, even moving.”
– Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and founder, 350.org
The ISIS Agreement draws on a wide range of sources, from the best modern science about global issues, to inspirational case studies in business, government, and educational life. Even stories from mythology are used to help us understand the peril of our time, and promise of sustainability for navigating our way to a better future.
“There is no ancient ritual to restore Earth to wholeness and life, but Alan AtKisson offers a credible operating manual for making our new century an era of recovery and regeneration.”
-John Elkington, co-founder of SustainAbility and Volans Ventures, co-author of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
Read The ISIS Agreement today.
Throughout the book, Alan AtKisson’s unique voice as a writer, songwriter, and strategic consultant will guide you through the challenges, the opportunities, and the imperatives we face as a world. Using stories gathered from over twenty years of traveling the world, and working with some of the most inspiring figures in sustainability history, AtKisson (inventor of the ISIS Method, lead developer of the Accelerator tools) “writes like a good mystery writer, while taking the mystery out of sustainability.”
”An excellent combination of theory, situational analysis, real life examples and tested tools. This is a must-read book for all who want to move the sustainability agenda forward in the 21st century.”
-Manuel Baigorri, Director Social and Environmental Sustainability, Levi Strauss Europe, Middle East and Africa
The ISIS Agreement is available through any major bookseller, or order it direct from the publisher for a 20% discount. Use promotional code “AF20″.
