Description
With deep thought and inspiring examples, this updated book engages readers by increasing their understanding and awareness of what sustainability means conceptually, practically, personally, and professionally. It provides readers with the tools and techniques to improve the social, environmental, and economic performance of their organizations in both the short and long term. Since sustainability is not achieved in a siloed environment, everyone has a critical role to play on this journey.
The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook, with full companion materials at https://TheSustainableEnterpriseFieldbook.com, engages today’s managers and leaders of organizations, in both the private sector and civil society, who are being challenged as never before to find ways to play a proactive role in understanding and addressing the risks and opportunities of sustainability. It teaches them how to apply systems thinking to turn our most intractable problems into exciting business opportunities, and offers ground breaking frameworks in new chapters on globalization, strategy, metrics, and sustainability models for collaboration, technology, and community. That is why this book is structured to be a fieldbook to provide practitioners the Activities, Cases, and Tools that they can use to help move their enterprise through progressively higher performing stages of sustainability. Readers also have access to the innovative Living Fieldbook, an online community forum filled with supporting materials: https://www.thesustainableenterprisefieldbook.com/webinars.html.
Table of Contents
PART I: Understanding reality: our context for The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook
Introduction and overview
PART II: Preparing the foundation for a sustainable enterprise
1. Leadership for a sustainable enterprise
2. Mental models for sustainability
3. Sustainability- aligned strategies: smart enterprise strategies to progress along a bridge to thriving
PART III: Embracing and managing change sustainably
4. Managing the change to a sustainable enterprise
5. Employee engagement for a sustainable enterprise
6. Enterprise sustainability metrics and reporting: performance measurements for resilient strategic progress
PART IV: Connecting, integrating, and aligning toward the future
7. Sustainable globalization: the challenge and the opportunity
8. Sustainability models for collaboration, technology, and community
PART V: Building new bridges to the future
9. A path forward: building new bridges to the future
10. Driving forces for change
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