The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good

Business & Money

Honeyman, Ryan

Business Culture

Berrett-Koehler on Dreamscape Audio

More than 1,000 companies from 80 industries and 30 countries are leading a global movement to redefine success in business. They're called B Corporations-B Corps for short―and these businesses create high-quality jobs, help build stronger communities, and restore the environment, all while generating solid financial returns. Author and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman worked closely with over 100 B Corp CEOs and senior executives to share their tips, advice, and best-practice ideas for how to build a better business and how to meet the rigorous standards for-and enjoy the benefits of-B Corp certification. Honeyman makes the business case for improving your social and environmental performance and offers a step-by-step quick start guide on how your company can join an innovative.

Special-interest money is destroying our democratic process. But now that the Citizens United decision has thrown out campaign spending limits as abridgments of free speech, Americans want to know what they can do about it. There's nothing inherently unconstitutional in limiting the amount of speech, Cressman insists. We do it all the time-cities control when and where demonstrations can take place or how long people can speak at council meetings. It's not at all what the Founders had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment. Cressman examines how courts have failed attempts to limit campaign spending, details what a constitutional amendment limiting paid speech should say, and reveals an overlooked political tool concerned citizens can use to help gain the amendment's passage.

When Money Talks: The High Price of Free Speech and the Selling of Democracy

Cressman, Derek

Finance

It-s people who make organizations great, so how can leaders best help their people achieve that greatness? You can't just demand greatness-you have to inspire it. The most effective leaders don't just stand in front of their people, they stand behind them too. While Jennings and Stahl-Wert use a compelling fictional story to outline the basics of Serving Leadership, all the characters in it are based on real people, the organizations depicted are based on real organizations―and the results they achieved are what really happened. On one level this is the most practical guide available to implementing Serving Leadership; on a deeper level, it is a story about the personal journey of growth that real leadership requires

The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

Jennings, Ken

John Stahl-Wert

In this latest edition, Perkins provides revealing new details about how he and  others did their work. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into  believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who,  we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The EHM system―employing false economics,  bribes, surveillance, deception, debt, coups, assassinations, unbridled  military power―has become the dominant system of economics, government, and  society today. It has created what Perkins calls a Death Economy. But Perkins  offers hope: he concludes with dozens of specific, concrete suggestions for  actions all of us can take to wrest control of our world away from the economic  hit men, and help give birth to a Life Economy.

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

PERKINS,JOHN

Organizations need innovation, and there is a powerful source right under their noses. Scholar and consultant David C. Thomas says the same forces of globalization that have created today's superheated competitive environment have also provided a potential hidden advantage: the multiculturals in your midst. Thomas cites extensive research and examples showing that multiculturals―people who have deep experience in more than one culture-have developed skills and abilities that organizations can leverage in the service of innovation. This story makes a powerful business case for recognizing and cultivating a new dimension of diversity-the diversity within individuals! Thomas looks at how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish.

The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization

Thomas, David C.

On the Great Seal of the Unites States it says Our country's motto is E pluribus unum-out of many, one-but you'd never know it now, says mediator and civic entrepreneur Mark Gerzon. In the past, Americans could disagree without demonizing each other. But now healthy partisan debate is being replaced by hyperpartisan political brawling. Loyalty to party is overpowering love of country. We need a new attitude if we're going to confront the challenges our country faces. Gerzon and others call it transpartisan-this is the transpartisan movement's manifesto. Gerzon describes how transpartisan activists all over the country are finding common ground on some of the most divisive and difficult issues we face today.

The Reunited States of America: How We Can Bridge the Partisan Divide

Politics & Social Sciences

Gezron, Mark

Politics & Government

<p>Most people associate performance management with the annual review, which is dreaded by employees, management, and HR professionals alike. It's a cookie-cutter, fear-based, top-down approach that emphasizes negatives over positives and stifles healthy career conversations. It's never been shown to motivate anyone to do anything but try to avoid it, but nobody feels like they have any alternative. Each organization that uses her Performance Management Reboot is able to develop its own unique version since it doesn't make a lot of sense for organizations with different cultures, in different industries and sectors, to do things exactly the same way. It's a transparent, employee-driven process that values collaboration over competition and rewards people for acquiring new skills and increasing their contribution instead of hitting arbitrary benchmarks.</p>

How Performance Management Is Killing Performance and What to Do About It

Chandler, M. Tamra

Management & Leadership

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The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good

The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good

When Money Talks: The High Price of Free Speech and the Selling of Democracy

The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization

The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization

The Reunited States of America: How We Can Bridge the Partisan Divide

How Performance Management Is Killing Performance and What to Do About It