by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 20, 2011
Al Gore and David Blood, his partner in the multi-billion private equity fund, Generation Investment Management, recently opined on “How businesses can embrace environmental, social and governance metrics,” on the Op-Ed page of The Wall Street Journal, an unlikely...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
The Inner Path of Leadership Joseph Jaworski and Betty S. Flowers Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998 “One of the most important roles we can play individually or collectively is to create an opening, or to ‘listen’ to the implicate order unfolding, and then to create...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty S. Flowers Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 2008 This is probably the best and most important book I’ve read in the last 10 years! Over the past month I’ve been reading Presence by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives Alvin and Heidi Toffler Currency/Doubleday, 2007 In their most recent book, the Tofflers describe a huge new and uncharted part of our economy as “prosuming.” Prosuming has two primary features. The creation of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals And The Next Episode Of Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin Viking, 2002 This book articulates the growing divide between our aspirations and needs as individuals and the products and services most companies provide....
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Muhammad Yunus PublicAffairs 2008 Economics professor and winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize says he originally became involved in poverty not as a policy-maker, scholar, or researcher, but because poverty was all around...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Jonathan Porritt Earthscan, 2005 Porritt is chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission; former chairman of the Ecology Party (now the Green Party); a former director of the Friends of the Earth UK; and currently runs the Forum for the Future, which aims to...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing From Crisis to Sustainability, by James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press, 2008 James Gustave Speth, Co-founder of the NRDC, Yale University dean, and former White House advisor has written a great book that everyone...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster: Advances in Ecological Economics, Peter A Victor; Edward Elgar Pub (November 30, 2008) Managing without Growth, contrasts the idea of genuine progress with economic growth. Progress is about creating a world...
