"[Bruce Piasecki's] clients include Toyota, FedEx, Caterpillar, Flextronics International and a number of other Fortune 500 companies. Piasecki is an authority on sustainability issues."
Description
What makes a global company great? Forthe past few decades, more than 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies have eitherfailed or been significantly downgraded in size, influence, or governancestructures. In New World Companies, best-selling author and corporateconsultant Bruce Piasecki examines this sobering reality and explains whycertain twenty-first century companies are likely to thrive while others fallshort.
New World Companiesbegins withan overview of today's global business environment. Specifically, it examinesthe recently evolved areas of corporate concern: environmental, social, andgovernance (ESG) practices. It then shows how this growing trend toward socialresponsiveness—involving areas such as preservation of the environment, themeeting of consumer and employee needs, and the transparency of companypractices and philosophies—is proving to be an integral part of a successfuloperation. Subsequent chapters explore the role of digital technology inbringing the people of the world together in a new era of human rights; theevolution of shared values in business networks; the new flow of moneymanagement and successful investing; the importance of innovation andsustainability; and much more.
Whether you are an investor, anexecutive, or a consumer, New World Companies providesyou with the tools needed to measure a company's potential for growth andsuccess—or its likelihood of failure.
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"[Piasecki's] thought of a friendlier corporation is a welcome one . . . [he] writes about the energy sector, in which he foresees great forward movement toward a renewable future even as big investment money is moving away from the fossil-fuel economy. Optimistic and full of good intentions: a book for green-money investors and consumers bent on putting their money to work in positive ways."
"Having logged more than 30 years as a managemen consultant to more than a hundred firms, [author] Piasecki is well prepared to identify the six stages of a corporation's life: profit-margin improvement, efficiency improvement, expansion of the global customer base, production differentiation, responding to the social concerns of the customer base, and having these responses recognized by analysts . . . [New World Companiesis] a practical blueprint for companies that want to adopt socially responsive corporate practices, covering the implementation of environmental, social, and governance metrics; how investors can analyze philosophies and corporate practices; the impact of digital technology; and the rise of an interconnected global community."
