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Forces for Good
About this book
Do you want your business to step up and make a meaningful difference?
There's a new generation of businesses emerging. They're working together to make a positive impact on the world by redefining what it means to be successful.
By changing the way you work and considering the impact of the decisions you make, you can join them in reducing poverty, injustice and environmental damage by balancing purpose with profit.
In this ground-breaking book, you will discover how these purpose-driven businesses work and how you can:
- Increase productivity by fully embracing diversity and developing an inclusive culture.
- Put respect, courtesy and compassion at the heart of your business.
- Maximise profits whilst prioritising the needs of people and the planet.
- Attract an engaged and motivated workforce that's focused on success and sustainability.
Join the growing global community of leaders and like-minded businesses that are putting what they do to work as a force for good.
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Table of contents
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- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Section 1 Changing the World
- The Nature of Work
- Understanding Ourselves
- Preparing to Change the World
- Starting to Change the World
- Business Can Change the World
- Section 2 Learning to Run a Business
- Being a Good Employer
- The Right People
- Hanging on by Fingertips
- Go with Your Gut
- Section 3 Better for People
- Work–Life Balance
- Relationships and Family
- Better Management
- Gender Balance in Leadership
- Collaborative Supplier Relationships
- Collaborative Customer Relationships
- Collaborative Competitor Relationships?
- Mentoring and Being Mentored
- Section 4 Better for the Planet
- A World Perspective
- Into Africa
- Feeling the Pain of the Planet
- Being Community-Orientated
- Politics and Business
- Section 5 Better for Profit
- Capitalism – Good or Bad?
- Telling and Embedding Your Story
- Building Multi-generational Teams
- Inward Investment
- Section 6 Better for You
- Personal Change
- Emotions within Business
- Finding Ikigai
- Ikigai Blockers
- A Sense of Achievement
- Being People Who Push On
- What Goes Around Comes Around
- And Finally…Dreaming Dreams
- The B Corporation Movement
- Bibliography
- World-changing Companies and Organisations
- Acknowledgments
- About the author
