The Resource Green giants : how smart companies turn sustainability into billion-dollar businesses, E. Freya Williams
Green giants : how smart companies turn sustainability into billion-dollar businesses, E. Freya Williams
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- Summary
- What do billion-dollar organizations like Tesla Motors, Trader Joe's, Chipotle, Toyota, Unilever, and General Electric have in common? They have all succeeded- amazingly-at building phenomenally successful businesses while selling products and services designed to help us live happier, healthier, more environmentally conscious lives. Packed with eye-opening research, exclusive interviews, and enlightening examples from major organizations, Green Giants reveals how these and other well-known, incredibly successful companies have turned a strategy of sustainability and social good into a billion-dollar business proposition and how you can, too. The book provides a blue-print for sustainable success, examining the six key factors green giant companies share that have directly contributed to their uncommon success. Uncovering enticing stories of iconoclastic thinking, radical innovation, tenacious commitment, standout creativity, and explosive growth, the book reveals the harsh truth hat corporate success can't be achieved on integrity, responsibility, and altruism alone. Packed with practical advice and hard-won wisdom, this book explains how to harness and replicate the proven methods currently fueling this dynamic and socially responsible business movement and achieve incredible success for your own ecologically responsible organization
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 278 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: billion with a "B"
- The iconoclastic leader
- Disruptive innovation
- A higher purpose
- Built in, not bolted on
- Mainstream appeal
- A new behavioral contract
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780814436141
- Label
- Green giants : how smart companies turn sustainability into billion-dollar businesses
- Title
- Green giants
- Title remainder
- how smart companies turn sustainability into billion-dollar businesses
- Statement of responsibility
- E. Freya Williams
- Subject
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- Industrial management -- Environmental aspects
- Leadership
- Leadership
- Leadership
- Leadership
- Management -- Environmental aspects
- Gestion d'entreprise -- Aspect environnemental
- Social responsibility of business
- Social responsibility of business
- Success
- Success in business
- Success in business
- Succès dans les affaires
- Responsabilité sociétale
- Industrial management -- Environmental aspects
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What do billion-dollar organizations like Tesla Motors, Trader Joe's, Chipotle, Toyota, Unilever, and General Electric have in common? They have all succeeded- amazingly-at building phenomenally successful businesses while selling products and services designed to help us live happier, healthier, more environmentally conscious lives. Packed with eye-opening research, exclusive interviews, and enlightening examples from major organizations, Green Giants reveals how these and other well-known, incredibly successful companies have turned a strategy of sustainability and social good into a billion-dollar business proposition and how you can, too. The book provides a blue-print for sustainable success, examining the six key factors green giant companies share that have directly contributed to their uncommon success. Uncovering enticing stories of iconoclastic thinking, radical innovation, tenacious commitment, standout creativity, and explosive growth, the book reveals the harsh truth hat corporate success can't be achieved on integrity, responsibility, and altruism alone. Packed with practical advice and hard-won wisdom, this book explains how to harness and replicate the proven methods currently fueling this dynamic and socially responsible business movement and achieve incredible success for your own ecologically responsible organization
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, E. Freya
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Leadership
- Social responsibility of business
- Industrial management
- Success in business
- Industrial management
- Leadership
- Social responsibility of business
- Success in business
- Leadership
- Responsabilité sociétale
- Gestion d'entreprise
- Succès dans les affaires
- Leadership
- Management
- Success
- Label
- Green giants : how smart companies turn sustainability into billion-dollar businesses, E. Freya Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: billion with a "B" -- The iconoclastic leader -- Disruptive innovation -- A higher purpose -- Built in, not bolted on -- Mainstream appeal -- A new behavioral contract -- Index
- Control code
- 898167427
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- ix, 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814436141
- Lccn
- 2015003047
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898167427
- Label
- Green giants : how smart companies turn sustainability into billion-dollar businesses, E. Freya Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: billion with a "B" -- The iconoclastic leader -- Disruptive innovation -- A higher purpose -- Built in, not bolted on -- Mainstream appeal -- A new behavioral contract -- Index
- Control code
- 898167427
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- ix, 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814436141
- Lccn
- 2015003047
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898167427
Subject
- Industrial management -- Environmental aspects
- Leadership
- Leadership
- Leadership
- Leadership
- Management -- Environmental aspects
- Gestion d'entreprise -- Aspect environnemental
- Social responsibility of business
- Social responsibility of business
- Success
- Success in business
- Success in business
- Succès dans les affaires
- Responsabilité sociétale
- Industrial management -- Environmental aspects
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