Companies that Mimic Life : Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance Paperback / softback
by Joseph H. Bragdon
Paperback / softback
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Industrial capitalism is broken. The signs, which transcend national ideologies, are everywhere: climate change; ecological overshoot; financial exhaustion; fraying social safety nets; corporate fraud; government deceit; civic unrest; terrorism; and war.
But there is hope. This book tells how transformation is taking root in the corporate world – the last place many of us would look for solutions. The book tells the stories of seven exceptional companies.
Their shared secret is a new mental model of the firm that is the virtual opposite of industrial capitalism.
Each company, if not already a household name, is a significant player within their industry and, crucially, has outperformed their competitors.
Lessons can be learned. It works like this. Instead of modeling themselves on the assumed efficiency of machines – a thought process that emerged during the industrial age – these firms model themselves on living systems.
Firms with open, ethical, inclusive traditions – where employees have a voice and a stake in what happens – have a distinct advantage over traditionally managed companies where most decisions are made at the top. Understanding that everything of value ultimately arises from life, they place a higher value on living assets (people and Nature) than they do on non-living capital assets.
The energy they invest in stewarding those assets – a practice described in the book as living asset stewardship (LAS) – is transformative.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:242 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781783535422
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:242 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781783535422