Books on Partnership Business Practices
Books by business leaders and authors who describe practical applications of partnership in the corporate world.
The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win
by Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen with Foreword by Peter Senge
(Jossey Bass, 2010)
For too long, our definition of what constitutes "responsible" corporate behavior has been dangerously timid and blinkered. This book tells how revolutionary companies — ranging from industry heavyweights like IBM, Nike and Marks & Spencer to emerging dynamos like Linden Lab and Etsy — are winning customers and driving profits by reimaging their companies from within: innovating new ways of working; instilling a new logic of competing; and redefining the very purpose and possibility of business.
Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success
by Marc Allen
(New World Library, 2009)
With so many painful examples of corporate greed by high-level executives and with environmental concerns on the rise, the need for new and inspired ways of doing business has never been greater. Framed as a parable, the story follows Marc’s unlikely rise to success. His mentor, an older investment specialist named Bernie, teaches him the ways of ethical and socially responsible business. Together they turn Marc’s fledgling attempts at business into a thriving corporate success, founded on principles as diverse as positive psychology, Eastern and Western spirituality, simple kindness, and market savvy.
Beyond: Business and Society in Transformation
by Mario Raich and Simon Dolan
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
We are living in a world of transformation, and the world tomorrow will be very different from the world today, or the world of yesterday. This extraordinary book will be fascinating to anyone concerned about the future of our world. Defining six key areas to discuss — society, religion, environment, science & technology, business, and politics — the authors draw a roadmap to the future. The authors have invited world experts and specialists to contribute to this book, creating a virtual team spanning over all continents to investigate how unexpected changes and developments are transforming the social and business landscape of the 21st century.
Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy
by Hazel Henderson with Simran Sethi, Foreword by Hunter Lovins
(Chelsea Green, 2007)
In this companion book to the national public television series, Henderson describes triple-bottom-line best practices for twenty-first-century business. With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Henderson announces the mature presence of the green economy. Mainstream media and big business interests have sidelined its emergence and evolution to preserve the status quo. Throughout Ethical Markets Henderson weaves statistics and analysis with profiles of entrepreneurs, environmentalists, scientists, and professionals. Based on interviews conducted on her longstanding public television series, these profiles celebrate those who have led the highly successful growth of green businesses around the world. Ethical Markets is the ultimate sourcebook on today's thriving green economy.
The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
by Peter M. Senge
(Random House, 2006)
This revised edition of Peter Senge’s bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning “disabilities” that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations — ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire. The revised edition contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank.
Energize your Workplace: How to Build and Sustain High Quality Connections at Work
by Jane E. Dutton
(Jossey-Bass, 2003)
Corrosive work relationships are like black holes that swallow up energy that people need to do their jobs. In contrast, high-quality relationships generate and sustain energy, equipping people to do work and do it well. Grounded in solid research, this book uses energy as a measurement to describe the power of positive and negative connections in people's experience at work. Author Jane Dutton provides three pathways for turning negative connections into positive ones that create and sustain employee resilience and flexibility, facilitate the speed and quality of learning, and build individual commitment and cooperation.
Through compelling and illustrative stories, Energize Your Workplace offers managers, executives, and human resource professionals the resources they need to build high-quality connections in the workplace.
The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and Our World
by Marc Allen
(New World Library, 2002)
This short, powerful work is potentially life changing, for it is filled with simple solutions to the difficult problems that confront us — individually and globally. Marc Allen offers clear, doable solutions to both our personal financial problems and global problems. Key to many of these solutions is both saving and giving away 10 percent of our income, also known as "tithing." By taking the kinds of actions recommended in this book, we can not only achieve financial security but also contribute substantially to a better world as well.
