Andrew Winston

Paul Polman

Runaway climate change and persistent inequality are ravaging the world and humanity. Who can help lead us to a better future? Business. These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts like pandemics, resource constraints, and shrinking biodiversity—threaten our very existence on the planet. Yet division and discord risk undermining our response, just when we need to come together. Global partnership and leadership are lacking, free trade and globalization are under attack, and populism continues to breed intolerance and disruption. At this critical time in history, the imperative to reimagine our economies and companies could not be more urgent. Fortunately, many in the business community—from large corporations to microenterprises—are helping to solve our most profound challenges by deploying long-term, purpose-led business models that put people and planet first. And they are profiting on this new path with new tools, AI and data-driven transparency, and radical improvements in the economics of clean technologies. The key question has flipped from "Why would you do sustainability?" to "Why wouldn't you?" In this paradigm-shifting book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable-business guru Andrew Winston provide a model to help leaders build companies that contribute more to the world than they use or take—that is, net positive companies. They bypass the last gasps of denial to show how purpose and profits are inextricably linked and how collective action can deliver the scale of change and transformation the world needs. Net Positive outlines the principles and practices for surviving and thriving, based on the experience of one world-leading company, Unilever, and other groundbreaking global organizations. This essential book is for leaders, executives, managers, and professionals who want to succeed, but know that winning requires caring deeply about serving the world. Building a net positive company is the key, and this book shows the way.

How Courageous Companieshb

Net Positive

Impacto positivo explica de forma corajosa como as empresas do futuro vão lucrar solucionando os problemas do mundo, não os criando. "Paul Polman defende que é lucrativo fazer negócios com o objetivo de tornar o mundo um lugar melhor." – The New York Times Pela primeira vez, o ex-CEO da Unilever Paul Polman revela como fez para aumentar o retorno de seus acionistas em 300% e ainda assim garantir que a empresa fosse a número 1 do mundo em sustentabilidade por onze anos consecutivos. Em parceria com Andrew Winston, grande expoente da sustentabilidade corporativa, Polman ensina os líderes a enfrentar os maiores desafios da humanidade – a mudança climática e a desigualdade social – e ainda garantir o sucesso do seu negócio. Eles derrubam o mito de que a única função das empresas é obter lucros e mostram por que a mera intenção de fazer o bem não é suficiente para salvar o mundo. É necessário criar ações concretas e reunir forças em nome desse objetivo – e as organizações de impacto positivo são a resposta. Essas empresas priorizam a inovação, desenvolvem relações de confiança e engajam clientes ao mesmo tempo que ajudam a criar sociedades mais fortes e inclusivas e um planeta mais saudável. Cure o mundo primeiro, eles dizem, e então você vai deixar seus investidores satisfeitos. Este livro vai ajudá-lo a encontrar o propósito de que você precisa para adotar o único modelo de negócios que importa nos próximos anos – e seus filhos e netos agradecerão por isso.

Como empresas corajosas prosperam dando mais do que tiram

Impacto positivo (Net Positive)

Daniel C. Esty

From the Publishers Weekly review: "Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly long-term sustainable course," Esty and Winston label the forward-thinking, green-friendly (or at least green-acquainted) companies WaveMakers and set out to assess honestly their path toward environmental responsibility, and its impact on a company's bottom line, customers, suppliers and reputation. Following the evolution of business attitudes toward environmental concerns, Esty and Winston offer a series of fascinating plays by corporations such as Wal-Mart, GE and Chiquita (Banana), the bad guys who made good, and the good guys-watchdogs and industry associations, mostly-working behind the scenes. A vast number of topics huddle beneath the umbrella of threats to the earth, and many get a thorough analysis here: from global warming to electronic waste "take-back" legislation to subsidizing sustainable seafood. For the responsible business leader, this volume provides plenty of (organic) food for thought. "

How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

Green to Gold

A best-selling author and business expert discusses emerging opportunities for companies in the face of climate change, the growth of a global middle class and supply chain scrutiny and explains strategies used by Unilever, Nike, Ford and others to adapt the new challenges. 20,000 first printing.

Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World

The Big Pivot

Il cambiamento climatico inarrestabile e l’ineguaglianza dilagante stanno devastando il mondo e costando una fortuna. Chi ci porterà verso un futuro migliore? Il business. Queste due difficilissime sfide, che si sommano ad altri cambiamenti profondi come le pandemie, la pressione sulle risorse e la contrazione della biodiversità, minacciano la nostra stessa esistenza. Ci sono però altri megatrend, come la spinta verso l’economia pulita e l’attenzione sempre crescente per l’inclusione, che possono rappresentare nuove opportunità di risanare il mondo, traendone un guadagno. I governi non possono riuscirci da soli: è il business che dovrebbe farsi avanti per aiutare. In questo libro emblematico, Paul Polman, ex CEO di Unilever, e Andrew Winston, guru del business sostenibile, fanno a pezzi cinquant’anni di dogmi aziendali, svelando per la prima volta alcune lezioni essenziali, tratte dall’esperienza di Unilever e da altre aziende pioniere sul modo in cui si può riuscire a ottenere profitti contribuendo a risolvere i problemi del mondo, invece di crearli. Per riuscire a prosperare non solo nel momento presente, ma anche in futuro, le aziende devono diventare “net positive”, dando al mondo più di quanto prendono. Non si tratta di una fantasia utopistica: vi sono dei leader coraggiosi che già oggi stanno rendendo reale questo processo, in un momento in cui la posta in gioco è altissima. Net positive, con la sua visione e le storie coinvolgenti che racconta, stabilisce alcuni principi e prassi grazie ai quali portare avanti il cambiamento e la trasformazione su grande scala di cui il mondo ha un disperato bisogno.

Un business etico per una crescita sostenibile e profittevole

Net positive

Harvard Business Review

Andrew McAfee

Dante Disparte

Yvette Mucharraz y Cano

Climate change is threatening our world. How are you responding? Heat waves, flooding, extreme storms, harsh winters. The effects of climate change are only getting worse. How can you ensure your organization is taking the right steps to mitigate this threat--and what can you, as an individual, do to help? These articles by experts and researchers will help you understand how climate change is affecting the future of business. Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will prepare you to join in the current discussion, identify immediate and long-term risks for your company, and plan for the future. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Runaway climate change and rampant inequality are ravaging the world and costing a fortune. Who will help lead us to a better future? Business. These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts, such as pandemics, resource pressures, and shrinking biodiversity—threaten our very existence. Other megatrends, such as the push for a clean economy and the unprecedented focus on diversity and inclusion, offer exciting new opportunities to heal the world, and prosper by doing so. Government cannot do this alone. Business must step up. In this seminal book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston explode fifty years of corporate dogma. They reveal, for the first time, key lessons from Unilever and other pioneering companies around the world about how you can profit by fixing the world's problems instead of creating them. To thrive today and tomorrow, they argue, companies must become "net positive"—giving more to the world than they take. A net positive company: Improves the lives of everyone it touches, from customers and suppliers to employees and communities, greatly increasing long-term shareholder returns in the process. Takes ownership of all the social and environmental impacts its business model creates. This in turn provides opportunities for innovation, savings, and building a more humane, connected, and purpose-driven culture. Partners with competitors, civil society, and governments to drive transformative change that no single group or enterprise could deliver alone. This is no utopian fantasy. Courageous leaders are already making it real—and the stakes couldn't be higher. With bold vision and compelling stories, Net Positive sets out the principles and practices that will deliver the scale of change and transformation the world so desperately needs. Join the movement now at netpositive.world

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