Leadership

Long-term Growth Through Customer Focus Part 2

BEYOND THE FAMILIAR LONG-TERM GROWTH THROUGH CUSTOMER FOCUS AND INNOVATION PATRICK BARWISE AND SEÁN MEEHAN JOSSEY-BASS www.josseybass.com         2012 PART 2   Chapter One: What Every CEO Wants Every CEO wants sustained, profitable, organic growth. Even firms that grow mainly by acquisition – with its high failure rate – usually need to show that they can …

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A Business Plan for Sustainable Living Part 8

DEVELOPING A PLAN FOR THE PLANET A BUSINESS PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING IAN CHAMBERS & JOHN HUMBLE GOWER        2011 The Green Economics and Sustainable Growth Series PART 8 Chapter 3: Executive Brief No. 2: Climate Change (Cont) The role of Government, Business and people BUSINESS Why is it important that business takes an active part …

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Good to Green Part 2

GOOD TO GREEN MANAGING BUSINESS RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS JOHN-DAVID PHYPER AND PAUL MACLEAN WILEY          2009 PART 2   Introduction The environment has finally been given a seat at the boardroom table. Even companies that were once notorious for their exploitation of the environment are joining the discussion, as they …

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A Business Plan for Sustainable Living Part 2

DEVELOPING A PLAN FOR THE PLANET A BUSINESS PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING IAN CHAMBERS & JOHN HUMBLE GOWER        2011 The Green Economics and Sustainable Growth Series PART 2   PART I: UNDERSTANDING OUR CURRENT SITUATION ‘No man is an island of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. …

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Competing for the Future

COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE BREAKTHROUGH STRATEGIES FOR SEIZING CONTROL OF YOUR INDUSTRY AND CREATING THE MARKETS OF TOMORROW GARY HAMEL & C.K. PRAHALAD HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PRESS                       1994   Preface and acknowledgments The book you are holding is the record of a unique partnership spanning seventeen years. In 1977 one off us (Gary) was a …

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Sustainable Agriculture Part 16

THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN          2005 PART XVI   PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 27: Reducing Food Poverty by Increasing Agricultural Sustainability in Developing Countries by Jules Pretty, James Morison and Rachel Hine (Cont) Improvements in soil health and fertility Soil health is fundamental for agricultural sustainability, …

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Feeding the 10 Billion Part 5

FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS                  1998 PART V Chapter 5: Towards the First Billion (1500-1825) (Cont) 5.5 The Norfolk agricultural ‘revolution’ The Norfolk agricultural revolution exemplifies the complex inter-relations between population growth, industrialization and agricultural development. Its roots in England go back to the beginnings of enclosure …

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The Creation of World Poverty Part 6

THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART VI Chapter 6: Plunder and Loot Adam Smith, the classic proponent of the arguments for free trade and an authority resorted to by many latter-day apologists for Empire, wrote in The Wealth of Nations of the …

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