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Companies that Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance

Joseph H. Bragdon

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Description: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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Companies that Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance. To get started finding Companies that Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Companies that Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance. To get started finding Companies that Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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