Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity. Through the exploration of robust cases and stories packed with deep insight and vital science, this extraordinary collection explores how we can adapt our notions of value, markets, and models of cooperation and collective action to create a world where economies and businesses excel, all people thrive, and nature flourishes.
In part I, "The Business of Business Is Betterment," the contributors show how enterprises today are further developing--and even taking a quantum leap beyond--the multistakeholder logic of "shared value creation." Part II, "Net Positive = Innovation's New Frontier," is focused on what companies can and are doing to move away from "doing no harm" to playing an active role in
solving environmental, social, and economic problems. The final section, "Ultimate Advantage: A Leadership Revolution That Is Changing Everything," looks at new leadership paradigms--characterized by unexpected qualities like virtue, love, compassion, and connection--that are crucial to creating engaged, empowered, innovative, and out-performing enterprises.
This book is designed to galvanize change and unite a global community of inquiry and action. It establishes the conceptual cornerstones for a new kind of business practice that will lead the way to an equitable, sustainable, and flourishing future.
Author: David CooperriderPublisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 12/14/2021
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781523093649
ISBN10: 1523093641
BISAC Categories:-
Business & Economics |
Development | Sustainable Development-
Business & Economics |
Structural Adjustment-
Business & Economics |
Decision Making & Problem SolvingAbout the Author
David L. Cooperrider is professor and chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management and faculty director of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. He is the previous president of the National Academy of Management's OD Division. Cooperrider has taught at institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, and MIT and has been a consultant and advisor to organizations including Boeing, McKinsey, Verizon, and others. He introduced the concept of Appreciative Inquiry in 1987 and has helped institutions all over the world create a revolution in positive leadership and change. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including Appreciative Inquiry and The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook.
Audrey Selian is Director, Artha Impact (Rianta Capital) and co-founder, Artha Networks Inc. She has been working in the field of impact finance for 15 years and has a deep knowledge of the networks of investment practitioners whose missions include both double and triple bottom line return objectives.
