Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto
By (Author) Adam Werbach
Harvard Business Review Press
Harvard Business Review Press
6th July 2009
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Sustainability
658.4012
Hardback
240
Width 155mm, Height 234mm
510g
The definitive work on business strategy for sustainability by the most authoritative voice in the conversation. More than ever before, consumers, employees, and investors share a common purpose and a passion for companies that do well by doing good. So any strategy without sustainability at its core is just plain irresponsible - bad for business, bad for shareholders, bad for the environment. These challenges represent unprecedented opportunities for big brands - such as Clorox, Dell, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, Nike, and Wal-Mart - that are implementing integral, rather than tangential, strategies for sustainability. What these companies are doing illuminates the book's practical framework for change, which involves engaging employees, using transparency as a business tool, and reaping the rewards of a networked organizational structure. Leave your quaint notions of corporate social responsibility and environmentalism behind. Werbach is starting a whole new dialogue around sustainability of enterprise and life as we know it in organizations and individuals. Sustainability is now a true competitive strategic advantage, and building it into the core of your business is the only means to ensure that your company - and your world - will survive.
Adam Werbach is Global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S. He was the youngest-ever (at age twenty-three years) National President of the Sierra Club at and is the author of the widely circulated speech, "Is Environmentalism Dead"