Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The second edition of The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook provides a crucial update to this seminal work, published in 2008. It teaches and guides leaders, managers, practitioners, students, and professors in every sector of society, and in every industry, in creating a successful and sustainable enterprise. By making the steps needed clear, understandable, and simple to follow, the book naturally engages readers in their journey and encourages their participation in three key ways: by increasing their understanding and awareness of what sustainability means at a conceptual and practical, as well as a personal, level; by energizing and expanding people's commitment to building sustainable enterprises; and by providing readers with extensive tools and techniques so they can individually and collectively take actions that will improve the social, environmental, and economic performance of their organizations in both the short and long term.
Each chapter of the book illustrates through models, tools, cases, stories, and examples from a wide range of companies how to integrate sustainability into the day-to-day realities of running a business. Managers are coached, facilitated, and guided to enable them to create a better balance between the short and long term, to help them to become change agents in their organizations and to provide answers to the question -How do I make a difference?- Some of the areas covered are leadership, strategy, managing change, employee engagement, metrics and measurement, networks, and globalization.
Readers of The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook will gain access to the innovative Living Fieldbook: an online community support forum providing ongoing assistance in building a sustainable enterprise.
The fully revised Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: Second Edition will be essential reading for those in every sector of business and academia.
Synopsis
With deep thought and inspiring examples, this updated book engages readers by increasing their understanding and awareness of what sustainability means conceptually, practically, personally, and professionally. It provides readers with the tools and techniques to improve the social, environmental and economic performance of their organizations in both the short and long term.
Since sustainability is not achieved in a siloed environment, everyone has a critical role to play on this journey. The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook engages today's managers and leaders of organizations, in both the private sector and civil society, who are being challenged as never before to find ways to play a proactive role in understanding and addressing the risks and opportunities of sustainability. It teaches them how to apply systems thinking to turn our most intractable problems into exciting business opportunities, and offers ground breaking frameworks in new chapters on globalization, strategy, metrics, and sustainability models for collaboration, technology, and community.
That is why this book is structured to be a fieldbook to provide practitioners the Activities, Cases and Tools that they can use to help move their enterprise through progressively higher performing stages of sustainability. Readers will also gain access to the innovative Living Fieldbook: an online community forum filled with supporting materials.
Synopsis
The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook engages today's managers and leaders of organizations, in both the private sector and civil society, who are being challenged as never before to fi nd ways to play a proactive role in understanding and addressing the risks and opportunities of sustainability.