[excerpt from “Why Sustainability Leadership is Needed,” a chapter to appear in Leadership in Sustainability: Case Studies in Practice (Fielding University Press, forthcoming 2020)] by Richard P. Appelbaum, PHD The nature of production has changed over the part fifty years, and not in ways that auger well for our planet or its people. These changes – which reflect larger, systemic processes of globalization – are symbolized by the half-century shift in fortunes between the world’s largest corporations (Lichtenstein, 2005). The emblematic late 20th century corporation was General Motors, whose revenues made it at the time the world’s largest firm. General Motors was [...]