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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Modified Item
- Yes
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Personalized
- Yes
- Modification Description
- Signed by Author
- Signed
- Yes
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Only Signed Copy
- ISBN
- 9780470648681
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0470648686
ISBN-13
9780470648681
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99676827
Product Key Features
Book Title
Responsible Business : Reimagining Sustainability and Success
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Business Ethics, Development / Sustainable Development
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-049179
Reviews
'A deeper, more satisfying look at business from the inside by a seasoned management consultant' bullfax.com
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
658.4/08
Table Of Content
A Foreword from the Boardroom xiii Chad Holliday A Foreword from Academia xvii Rebecca Henderson Acknowledgments xxiii Prologue: A New Business Mind xxv Procter & Gamble (P&G): Responsibility Prototype xxvii P&G''s Guiding Principles xxx Bringing It Home xxxiii Introduction: The Responsible Business xxxv New Problem, Old Mind xxxv Evolve Corporate Responsibility by Evolving Business Responsibility xxxix Three Forks in the Road to Responsibility xl A Framework for the Responsible Business xlii From Add-on Responsibility to Full-on Responsibility xliv About This Book xlv About the Author xlvii Part One: The Responsible Business: Reimagining Businesses of the Future 1 1 Stories from Three Continents 3 Herban Feast: Caring for Customers 3 Kingsford: Creating Collaboratively 7 Colgate, South Africa: Localizing Identity and Destiny 11 Seventh Generation: Regenerating Planetary Systems 15 E. I. DuPont: Engaging Shareholder Value 19 Panning for Gold 23 Conclusions 24 2 Stakeholders as Systemic Collaborators 25 The Meaning of Stakeholder 25 Stand in the Stakeholder''s Shoes 26 Stakeholders Affect Responsibility 27 Five Key Stakeholders and Their Stakes 29 Conclusions 37 3 Geometry of the Responsible Business 38 Systemic Stakeholder Framework 39 The Logic of the Pentad 41 Integrate Stakeholder Initiatives 44 Conclusions 48 4 Be Value-Adding, Not Value-Added 49 Value-Added is Not Value-Adding 51 Energize Caring Through Value-Adding Processes 52 Five Stakeholder Imperatives 53 Conclusions 81 5 Making the Responsible Business Pentad Work 82 Revolutionizing Business Models: Red Hat 82 From Commodity to Nondisplaceability: Kingsford 85 Deeply Connect to Your Customer: Herban Feast 108 Mission-Driven Meets Future-Proof: Seventh Generation 114 Change the World by Changing the Business: Colgate, South Africa 122 Conclusions 129 Part Two: Making IT Work: The Map to the Territory 131 6 Teaching an Organization to Star 133 Retrofit an Existing Business 134 Reverse Phases for a Start-up Responsible Business 150 Conclusions 152 7 Nonhierarchical Decision Making 154 Hierarchical Management is Irresponsible 154 Self-Organizing Decision Making is Responsible 156 Four Self-Organizing Capabilities 157 Conclusions 171 Part Three: Irresponsibility Happens: Reframing How Change Works 173 8 Responsibility Running Backward 175 Running Faster in the Wrong Direction 176 A 360-Degree Business Perspective 179 Make Something for Someone 180 From Backward to Forward Spin 182 Conclusions 185 9 Our Own Worst Enemies: Turning People Around 186 Brain Works 187 Three-Brained Decision Making 188 Triad of Mental Frames 189 Familiarity is the Enemy of Creativity 192 Incentives Narrow the Mind 195 Narrower Frames of Reference Cause the Pentad to Spin Backward 196 Leading from the Purposeful Mental Frame 196 Personal Development and Critical Thinking Skills 198 Conclusions 199 10 Cautionary Tales: Design for Prevention and Cure 200 Six Common Hazards 201 An Ounce of Prevention 216 Conclusions 218 Part Four: The Big Picture of Responsibility 219 11 A Responsible View of Capital 221 Stakeholder Return on Investment (ROI) 222 Conclusions 242 12 Assessing Responsibility 243 Systemic Responsibility Indicators 244 Conclusions 259 13 The Future of Responsibility 261 Getting from Here to There 262 Alternative Business Approaches 263 Responsible Investing Within the Current Legal Framework 275 Conclusions 277 Epilogue: Developing Capability for Responsibility 279 Three Capabilities Underlying Responsibility 280 A Final Reflection 283 Notes 287 Index 293
Synopsis
"When most people think of corporate responsibility, they are focusing on a business's effect on and relationship to stakeholders. A Responsible Business sees stakeholders as full partners and meaningful instruments for the evolution of healthier communities and more successful businesses." -- from the Introduction The Responsible Business offers a new and strategic approach to doing business that holistically integrates responsibility into all aspects of an organization, allowing for returns at every level, business and social. This book goes beyond the often well intentioned but limited attempts at sustainability to present a framework that allows organizations to bring responsibility into everything they do and re-imagine success. From innovation, product development, and production processes to business management, strategic planning, and shareholder development, the author shows how being a Responsible Business is a practical skill that can be applied day-to-day at every level of the business. No longer just the role of a department or the job of CSR professionals, successful responsibility and business efforts start at the business level, are then taken to the corporate level, and are finally applied throughout the organization. The Responsible Business outlines a framework for building a responsibility and consciousness infrastructure that applies a living systems view to the business and inspires all of its stakeholders, including shareholders. Throughout the book, illustrated by examples from technology to manufacturing, large and small, public and private, Sanford demonstrates how to make responsibility integral to all aspects of a business as an engine for innovation, profitability, and purpose. Praise for The Responsible Business "This is a very significant book. It makes it clear that businesses have a single boss with five interrelated aspects. The stories are among the crispest, most evocative case histories I have seen. The book is for any corporate leader trying to do the impossible: create a business that recreates the world." -- Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief, strategy + business, and author, The Age of Heretics "Carol Sanford offers us a proven, practical, and systems-based approach that integrates five stakeholder groups into a business system working as an integral whole. Essential reading for leaders wanting a system framework for sustainability and business success!" -- Otto Scharmer, MIT Sloan senior lecturer; author, Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges; and coauthor, Presence " The Responsible Business challenges many assumptions corporate leaders, investment advisors, and sustainability experts have long taken for granted. It provides a road map that can help innovative businesses think about how to be truly transformational." -- Sam Ford, Fast Company expert blogger and director, Peppercom "The powerful concepts in The Responsible Business have changed the process of sustainable development and how communities truly thrive. Indeed, these proven approaches will be the roadmap to truly achieve the deepest level of living communities." -- Bill Reed, founding member of LEED System and coauthor, The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building "Critical for re-imagining the future of business. Rarely a day goes by that I do not call on this way of thinking and looking at the world. It is useful for taking on the big business decisions that so many of us face every day." -- Chad Holliday, chairman, Bank of America, "When most people think of corporate responsibility, they are focusing on a business's effect on and relationship to stakeholders. A Responsible Business sees stakeholders as full partners and meaningful instruments for the evolution of healthier communities and more successful businesses." -- from the Introduction The Responsible Business offers a new and strategic approach to doing business that holistically integrates responsibility into all aspects of an organization, allowing for returns at every level, business and social. This book goes beyond the often well intentioned but limited attempts at sustainability to present a framework that allows organizations to bring responsibility into everything they do and re-imagine success. From innovation, product development, and production processes to business management, strategic planning, and shareholder development, the author shows how being a Responsible Business is a practical skill that can be applied day-to-day at every level of the business. No longer just the role of a department or the job of CSR professionals, successful responsibility and business efforts start at the business level, are then taken to the corporate level, and are finally applied throughout the organization. The Responsible Business outlines a framework for building a responsibility and consciousness infrastructure that applies a living systems view to the business and inspires all of its stakeholders, including shareholders. Throughout the book, illustrated by examples from technology to manufacturing, large and small, public and private, Sanford demonstrates how to make responsibility integral to all aspects of a business as an engine for innovation, profitability, and purpose. Praise for The Responsible Business "This is a very significant book. It makes it clear that businesses have a single boss with five interrelated aspects. The stories are among the crispest, most evocative case histories I have seen. The book is for any corporate leader trying to do the impossible: create a business that recreates the world." -- Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief, strategy + business, and author, The Age of Heretics "Carol Sanford offers us a proven, practical, and systems-based approach that integrates five stakeholder groups into a business system working as an integral whole. Essential reading for leaders wanting a system framework for sustainability and business success " -- Otto Scharmer, MIT Sloan senior lecturer; author, Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges; and coauthor, Presence " The Responsible Business challenges many assumptions corporate leaders, investment advisors, and sustainability experts have long taken for granted. It provides a road map that can help innovative businesses think about how to be truly transformational." -- Sam Ford, Fast Company expert blogger and director, Peppercom "The powerful concepts in The Responsible Business have changed the process of sustainable development and how communities truly thrive. Indeed, these proven approaches will be the roadmap to truly achieve the deepest level of living communities." -- Bill Reed, founding member of LEED System and coauthor, The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building "Critical for re-imagining the future of business. Rarely a day goes by that I do not call on this way of thinking and looking at the world. It is useful for taking on the big business decisions that so many of us face every day." -- Chad Holliday, chairman, Bank of America, Praise for The Responsible Business "This is a very significant book. It makes it clear that businesses have a single boss with five interrelated aspects. The stories are among the crispest, most evocative case histories I have seen. The book is for any corporate leader trying to do the impossible: create a business that recreates the world." --ART KLEINER editor-in-chief, strategy + business, and author, The Age of Heretics "Carol Sanford offers us a proven, practical, and systems-based approach that integrates five stakeholder groups into a business system working as an integral whole. Essential reading for leaders wanting a system framework for sustainability and business success!" --OTTO SCHARMER MIT Sloan senior lecturer; author, Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges; and coauthor, Presence "The Responsible Business challenges many assumptions corporate leaders, investment advisors, and sustainability experts have long taken for granted. It provides a road map that can help innovative businesses think about how to be truly transformational." --SAM FORD Fast Company expert blogger and director, Peppercom "The powerful concepts in The Responsible Business have changed the process of sustainable development and how communities truly thrive. Indeed, these proven approaches will be the roadmap to truly achieve the deepest level of living communities." --BILL REED founding member of LEED System and coauthor, The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building "Critical for re-imagining the future of business. Rarely a day goes by that I do not call on this way of thinking and looking at the world. It is useful for taking on the big business decisions that so many of us face every day." --CHAD HOLLIDAY chairman, Bank of America, When most people think of corporate responsibility, they are focusing on a businesss effect on and relationship to stakeholders. A Responsible Business sees stakeholders as full partners and meaningful instruments for the evolution of healthier communities and more successful businesses.|9780470648681|
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