World, Inc. by Bruce Piasecki
Fifty-one of the world's top 100 economies are now corporations. More than 40 percent of world trade now takes place within multinational corporations. We now know that the world is flat, but what does that mean for the future of business and society? Dr. Bruce Piasecki, one of the top energy and environmental consultants to companies such as Toyota, BP, Chevron, DuPont and Dow Chemical, provides a groundbreaking new work showing that social response by firms will be the new benchmark by which corporations will be judged and can drive profits. As power moves into the hands of corporations, the world is looking to corporations instead of governments to solve its problems. The corporations that can best address social issues by creating superior products will thrive and profit in this new world. A rare but important vision into our future world-a robust world where 'buy and sell' decisions are made not only on the basis of price, quality and availability but also on the basis of environmental, social and economic criteria... -Bill Sugar, Senior Director, Anheuser-Busch Corporation By linking environmental and social performance to product differentiation at major companies such as Toyota and HP, Bruce Piasecki has illuminated an important source of competitive advantage and stock value in the 21st century.-Dr. Chris Laszlo, Founding Partner, Sustainable Value Partners
Bruce Piasecki is the author of over a dozen books, including the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Doing More with Less: The New Way to Wealth. A homage to creative frugality and Ben Franklin, that DMWL book is now out in Spanish and Polish. Before DMWL, Bruce Piasecki wrote for Simon and Schuster; his title there, In Search of Environmental Excellence, was ranked by the Library of Congress as one of the top 100 books on Nature in the 20th century. In Search came out in editions by Quality Paperback Books and editions by Rodale; it was noted widely. During the last dozen books, Piasecki has tried his hand at biographies (Linda Coady, Eileen Fisher, Giants of Social Investing), creative memoir (Missing Persons) and has written non-fiction Business and Society books that had him on book tours in Australia, Ireland, England, Scotland and other nations. His book World Inc, translated into a dozen foreign editions, won a book of the year in Japanese, and has been recognized as a major reflection on globalization and its discontents. Piasecki's management consulting firm has worked for Walmart in Africa across four years, for Toyota across decades, and now runs leadership councils of world experts for Merck, Walgreens Alliance Boots, and others. His leadership workshop series, the Corporate Affiliates Programs, has now enrolled over 300 of the Fortune 500 firms. At age 65, with the descent of Covid-19 before his family, friends, and firm, Bruce Piasecki wrote the fable 2040.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781402208713 |
| ISBN 10 | 1402208715 |
| Title | World, Inc. |
| Author | Bruce Piasecki |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Year published | 2007-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Axiom Business Book Awards |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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