This book is organized around three classic global needs shared by both business strategists and environmental leaders: achieving compliance, recognizing business opportunity, and answering public expectations. The cases compiled in this text address these concerns. The goals of the authors are to reach both experienced managers and newcomers to the field of environmental business strategy; to publish cases that respect the full range of management responsibilities, from basic civil laws of government to those facing competitors and customers; and, to mix the case work with an appealing conceptual narrative.

Environmental Management and Business Strategy: Leadership Skills for the 21st Century

Business & Money

PIASECKI, BRUCE

Fletcher, Kevin A.

Mendelson, Frank J.

Economics

wiley

In search of environmental excellence: Moving beyond blame

"In the future, solutions to the most far-reaching environmental dilemmas must come from private citizens as well as from industry and the government.... The goal of this book is to articulate the new set of reliable alternatives available to us, and to further the momentum toward excellence already initiated by thousands of specialists, entrepreneurs, and citizens. During our research we have uncovered many examples of environmental excellence. With each new discovery, certain patterns and principles resurfaced again and again. Armed with a knowledge of these principles, each one of us can shatter the myths of our industrial past, and, in the process, offer hope to a world groping for answers."

In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond Blame

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Simon & Schuster Books

Simon&Schuster

“An unpretentious, tactical, and sure-footed examination of the events that shaped his own life.” --Jay Parini, author of the best-selling historical novel, The Last Station Bruce Piasecki’s book on business strategy Doing More With Less: the New Way to Wealth, was an immediate success, becoming a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Indeed, Doing More With Less is not just a clever book title; it explains the core philosophy of a man, who propelled from an impoverished and fatherless childhood, became an internationally, sought-after resource for the world’s largest corporations―from Toyota and Wal-Mart to Shell and Suncor Energy. Those who helped and shaped Dr. Piasecki are the focus of his latest work Missing Persons: A Life of Unexpected Influences. Indeed, in this set of 70 vignettes Piasecki channels his poetic side - a side that was first noticed at Cornell when his little-known book of poems was published under the title Stray Prayers in 1973. The memoir, one part autobiography, one part creative non-fiction and written in vignette form, recounts the author’s formative relationships and experiences with intimacy and longing. Meet his mother, and father, his interracial brothers and sisters, his early and late business partners, his lovers, his daughter and his wife. It is told in a unique third person narrative that provides intrigue for the reader as they follow the protagonist through loss, passion, self-invention, a litany of fears and dreams - each revealed in eloquent prose. Through his uniquely informed perspective, Bruce allows us to understand the power of memory and how it influences us. The simplicity that made Doing More With Less a bestseller makes this new work not only compelling, but also life-affirming. Missing Persons explores the meaning and power of memory, and offers an opportunity for the reader to pause, reflect, and recount the myriad of influences in their own lives.  

Missing Persons: A Life of Unexpected Influences

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Square One

We all sense that corporations shape our family, our products, and our near future--perhaps more than ideology, national and regional policy, and religious doctrine. That is why capitalism remains the dominant force in most sections of the world today, only a few decades after Karl Marx wrote his infamous Das Capital. But how exactly does capitalism influence us? Is it for the better, or for the worse? Does it add freedom, or does capitalism co-opt and constraint individualism and creativity? Are there new forms of capitalism where societal and environmental expectations are shaping products, earth-shattering decisions, and investment trends?

New World Companies: The Future of Capitalism

Doing More With Less dives into our primal competitive instinct, which embraces frugality as a crucial competitive edge. Author Bruce Piasecki convincingly explains the case for a return to frugality, providing relevant examples from his thirty years of experience as a management consultant and change agent. Liberate more of your resources by realigning money, people, and rules in your life that impact your family and your company. Doing More With Less is an actionable call to arms, with global insights―applicable to professionals in any industry―that will make you more adept in the short run and adaptive in the long run. A unique guide to achieving wealth, Doing More With Less reveals how the principle of frugality can enable entrepreneurs to endure less risk and capture greater returns for themselves, their families, and their firms.

Doing More With Less: The New Way To Wealth

Doing More With Teams explores the ways to encourage a new form of competition so that organizations complete the challenges before them to drive growth and get results. It offers a new premise for the concept of teamwork and challenges the perception that individualism is the only way to wealth. Through real-life and historical examples of teams that have inspired awe, this book lays out a solid set of principles that work for all kinds of teams. It shows how to avoid individual motivators that undermine the importance of teams, how to establish guidelines for shared responsibilities, and so much more. Doing More With Teams enlightens the world to a new, more ethical, and more collaborative way forward. It shows us how best to tap into the magic of teamwork.

Doing More With Teams: The New Way To Winning

Management & Leadership

Stray prayers

distributed by Serendipity Books

During these last years of social unrest regarding climate change, police arrests, and issues of economic justice, a few leaders have emerged with exceptional social skills. Linda Coady is featured in this book as having exceptional social intelligence. Once the planning head of the Vancouver Olympics, she added a social awareness in what was once a realm of elite athletes, and brought more workers, suppliers, and companies into the mix of access and enjoyment. This case examines how she learned early in life how to navigate both the realm of science (her father was a renown doctor) and the realm of social and personal belief (she was trained at the Sisters of Mercy). She became a senior executive at one of the world's largest pipeline and energy infrastructure giants in Calgary, bringing them into greater social awareness. This case study brings you into her genius, her techniques of deep listening. The author Bruce Piasecki, writers of such best sellers as www.doingmorewithlessbook.com, helps the reader understanding what deep listening means, why it matters more than ever.

The Social Intelligence of Linda Coady (1) (Conquering Tomorrow Today: Six Exemplar Lives)

Professionals & Academics

Creative Force Fund

Like the case books by Sigmund Freud and Winston Churchill before him, Bruce Piasecki explores with explosive insights these exemplar lives. The work, while popular and easy to read, documents the historic significant in these money matters. The content explains how new world companies and new world investors are outdistancing the past. You see why firms like Apple, Tesla, NextEra, and Unilever are massively changed organizations along these ESG investment grade changes. The book is one based on case-work, yet it is filled with a seasoned sense of principles on how the best corporate performers today are attracting new capital as the world changes. Piasecki has used the articulation of key principles to make a book that will prove timeless, and lasting, in a world of constantly reassessed stocks.

Giants of Social Investing: John Streur and Jack Robinson

Travelers & Explorers

BookBaby

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