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Build trust-and create more value. Whether you're negotiating a
salary, a deal with a supplier, or your workload, thoughtful
preparation increases your confidence, resilience-and results. But
it's not just numbers and strategies. Advocating for yourself, your
team, and your business can feel personal, so you also need to
manage the emotions that arise during the process. Next-Level
Negotiating provides the research, advice, and practical tips you
need to counter the harmful stereotypes about women and negotiation
to communicate clearly who you are and what you need. Establish
trust with your counterpart and face negotiations of any size with
curiosity, creativity, and a collaborative mindset-all the
essentials to successfully seal a deal. This book will inspire you
to: Set a clear target-and imagine alternatives Consider your
counterpart's context and perspective Manage the emotions in the
room Strike a deal that works for you The HBR Women at Work Series
spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience
throughout their careers. With interviews from the popular podcast
of the same name and related articles, stories, and research, these
books provide inspiration and advice for taking on topics at work
like inequity, advancement, and building community. Featuring
detailed discussion guides, this series will help you spark
important conversations about where we're at and how to move
forward.
LEARN STRATAGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL DEAL MAKING Star of the hit show
Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Josh Flagg shares his secrets
to mastering any negotiation in any industry and at any level.
Throughout his career, Josh Flagg has faced off with challengers of
all kinds in negotiations over the world's most expensive and
sought-after real estate. He has seen and put into practice what
works and identified the "common tricks" that don't. Josh has
curated ten rules that, when applied to any deal, will
significantly increase your chance of success, and make you the
master negotiator your clients need you to be. Sample rules
include: Rule #1: Don't Sell Garbage- you are what you sell. Rule
#2: You Only Have One Client- focus on the one you're with. Rule
#3: Up Your Attitude- be the person people want to represent them.
Rule #8: Play the Psychologist- you are your client's best friend.
Rule #10: Know Your Worth- you are your best advocate. If you want
to be the best, you have to look and act like the best. Josh
learned this rule young and has applied it to every client
relationship he has ever had. He began his real estate career as a
student at Beverly Hills High School-swung big and hit-landing him
in the perfect position to take on some of LA's largest, most
exclusive real estate listings and, eventually, a spot on Million
Dollar Listing Los Angeles. Apply the lessons in the book to become
the negotiator who closes million-dollar deals.
This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company
impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in
organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to
making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on
four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only
discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier society
and improved living conditions worldwide, but also provides
guidelines for measuring a company's population health footprint.
Examples, statistics and visuals showcase emerging corporate
involvement in public health and underscore the business
opportunities available to companies that invest in health. The
authors offer a detailed roadmap for optimizing health-promoting
actions in a rapidly evolving business and social climate across
these core areas: Planning and building a culture of health
Consumer health: How organizations affect the safety, integrity,
and healthfulness of the products and services they offer to their
customers and end consumers Employee health: How organizations
affect the health of their employees (e.g., provision of
employer-sponsored health insurance, workplace practices and
wellness programs) Community health: How organizations affect the
health of the communities in which they operate and do business
Environmental Health: How organizations' environmental policies (or
lack thereof) affect individual and population health Implementing
and sustaining a culture of health Building a Culture of Health
clarifies both a mission and a vision for use by MPH and MBA
students in health management, professors in schools of public
health and business schools, and business leaders and chief medical
officers in health care and non-health care businesses.
Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address
stakeholder demands from every direction: consumers want socially
responsible products; employees want meaningful work; investors now
screen on environmental, social, and governance criteria;
"clicktivists" create social media storms over company missteps.
CEOs now realize that their companies must be social as well as
commercial actors, but stakeholder pressures often create
trade-offs with demands to deliver financial performance to
shareholders. How can companies respond while avoiding simple
"greenwashing" or "pinkwashing"? This book lays out a roadmap for
organizational leaders who have hit the limits of the supposed
win-win of shared value to explore how companies can cope with real
trade-offs, innovating around them or even thriving within them.
Suggesting that the shared-value mindset may actually get in the
way of progress, bestselling author Sarah Kaplan shows in The 360
Degrees Corporation how trade-offs, rather than being confusing or
problematic, can actually be the source of organizational
resilience and transformation.
The emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit
group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally
changed the nature of environmentalism-its purpose, philosophy, and
tactics-around the world. And yet there has been no comprehensive
objective history of Greenpeace's origins-until now. Make It a
Green Peace! draws upon meeting minutes, internal correspondence,
manifestos, philosophical writings, and interviews with former
members to offer the first full account of the origins of what has
become the most recognizable environmental non-governmental
organization in the world. Situating Greenpeace within the peace
movement and counterculture of the 1960s, Frank Zelko provides a
much deeper treatment of the group's groundbreaking brand of
radical, media-savvy, direct-action environmentalism than has been
previously attempted. Zelko traces the complex intellectual and
cultural roots of Greenpeace to the various protest movements of
the 1950s and 1960s, highlighting the influence of Quakerism-with
its practice of bearing witness-Native American spirituality, and
the non-violent resistance of Gandhi. Unlike the more strait-laced,
less confrontational Sierra Club and Audubon Society, early
Greenpeacers smoked dope, dropped acid, wore their hair long, and
put their bodies on the line-interposing themselves between the
harpoons of whalers and the clubs of seal-hunters-to save the
animals and achieve what they hoped would be a lasting
transformation in the way humans regarded the natural world. And
while it may not have achieved its most revolutionary goals,
Greenpeace inarguably created a heightened awareness of
environmental issues that endures to this day. Narrating the key
campaigns and arguments among the group's early members, Make It a
Green Peace! vividly captures all the drama, pathos, and occasional
moments of absurd comic relief of Greenpeace's tumultuous first
decade.
Long before Columbus, American Indians had trading routes all
across the Americas. How did they maintain this extensive network
of trading relationships through the centuries? In this
ground-breaking book, leading native and non-native scholars
present a fascinating view of American Indian tribal values and
indigenous cultures. This 'Tribal Wisdom' offers an ethic of
business practice that is relationship-based and
community-oriented, fostering a harmonious web of life which
includes the natural environment. Many of these traditions have
shaped daily conduct in business and personal life among Native
Americans for centuries and today the wider business world could
find use from relating these tribal values to both ethics and
sustainability. Indigenous values incorporate a world-view which
recognizes that the natural environment is alive and living a life
as important as, and also essential to, human well-being. This
indigenous sense of "relationship" begins with the relationship
between humans and the natural environment, and then extends to the
relationships between and among people. For this reason, indigenous
American Indian values embody the very essence of sustainability.
Despite recent optimism and global initiatives, the implementation
of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with
less than a third of global companies having developed a clear
business case for their approach to sustainability. Presenting
numerous award-winning cases and examples from companies such as
Unilever, Patagonia, Tumi, DSM and Umicore alongside original ideas
based upon 20 years of consulting experience, this book reveals how
to design and implement a stronger sense of focus and move
sustainability programs forward. This proven combination of
purpose, direction and speed is dubbed "Vectoring". Based upon
practitioner cases and data analysis from the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index, Vectoring offers a plain-spoken framework to
identify the relative position of companies compared to their
peers. The framework and its 4 archetypes deliver insights for
practitioners to locate inhibitors and overcome them by providing
practical suggestions for process improvements. This includes
designing and executing new sustainability programs, embedding the
SDGs within company strategy and assessing the impact of
sustainability programs on competitiveness and valuation. Offering
directions for CFOs to shift companies from integrated reporting to
integrated thinking in order to accelerate their sustainability
programs, Winning Sustainability Strategies shows how to achieve
purpose with profit and how to do well by doing good.
Today we recognize that we have a different relationship to media
technology-and to information more broadly-than we had even five
years ago. We are connected to the news media, to our jobs, and to
each other, 24 hours a day. But many people have found their
mediated lives to be too fast, too digital, too disposable, and too
distracted. This group-which includes many technologists and young
people-believes that current practices of digital media production
and consumption are unsustainable, and works to promote alternate
ways of living. Until recently, sustainable media practices have
been mostly overlooked, or thought of as a counterculture. But, as
Jennifer Rauch argues in this book, the concept of sustainable
media has taken hold and continues to gain momentum. Slow media is
not merely a lifestyle choice, she argues, but has potentially
great implications for our communities and for the natural world.
In eight chapters, Rauch offers a model of sustainable media that
is slow, green, and mindful. She examines the principles of the
Slow Food movement-humanism, localism, simplicity, self-reliance,
and fairness-and applies them to the use and production of media.
Challenging the perception that digital media is necessarily
eco-friendly, she examines green media, which offers an alternative
to a current commodities system that produces electronic waste and
promotes consumption of nonrenewable resources. Lastly, she draws
attention to mindfulness in media practice- "mindful emailing" or
"contemplative computing" for example-arguing that media has
significant impacts on human health and psychological wellbeing.
Slow Media will ultimately help readers understand the complex and
surprising relationships between everyday media choices, human
well-being, and the natural world. It has the potential to
transform the way we produce and use media by nurturing a media
ecosystem that is more satisfying for people, and more sustainable
for the planet.
Contrary to conventional wisdom about what makes a good negotiator
- namely, being aggressive and unemotional - in Bring Yourself,
Mori Taheripour offers a radically different perspective. In her
own life, and in her more than fifteen years of experience teaching
negotiation, she has found that the best negotiators are
empathetic, curious and present. The essence of bargaining isn't
the transaction, but rather the conversation and human connection.
It is when we bring our whole, authentic selves to the table that
we can advocate for ourselves fearlessly and find creative
solutions that benefit everyone. Bring Yourself explains how your
pressure points, personal experience and even your cultural
expectations can become roadblocks to finding common ground, and it
offers essential strategies to move beyond them and open your mind.
With eye-opening and empowering stories throughout, Bring Yourself
helps readers gain the confidence they need to achieve their goals
in work and in life. Timely and provocative, this paradigm-shifting
book can transform our world and the way we work together.
In a fast moving world the transportation of goods is expected to
be more efficient than ever before. This compendia features papers
that address key themes in green logistics such as benchmarking and
energy efficiency and includes highly cited papers from
international contributors such as Alan McKinnon and Joseph Sarkis.
Strategic Sustainability examines how organizations can implement
environmental sustainability science, theories, and ways of
thinking to become more competitive. Including examples and ideas
implemented in various countries, it is based on known scientific
principles about the natural world and organizational principles
focusing on the work domain. The intersection of these two realms
of research creates a powerful and new approach to comprehensive,
seemingly contradictory issues. Daniel S. Fogel draws from
disparate fields and creates a story about organizations, their
future and how people are part of the problem and, more
importantly, part of the solution. Readers will find ways to take
action to improve organizations and avoid denigrating our natural
environment, learning to be mindful of the urgency we should feel
to improve our impact on the world. The focus on the natural
environment provides a powerful focus for creating value in
organizations and addressing the major challenges we all face.
Advanced sustainability students, working professionals and board
members, managers and legislators responsible for governing
organizations or implementing public policy will find this book
useful. A companion website features an instructor's manual with
test questions, as well as 38, 10-minute videos for classroom use.
Businesses promote their environmental awareness through green
buildings, eco-labels, sustainability reports, industry pledges and
clean technologies. When are these symbols wasteful corporate spin,
and when do they signal authentic environmental improvements? Based
on twenty years of research, three rich case studies, a strong
theoretical model and a range of practical applications, this book
provides the first systematic analysis of the drivers and
consequences of symbolic corporate environmentalism. It addresses
the indirect cost of companies' symbolic actions and develops a new
concept of the 'social energy penalty' - the cost to society when
powerful corporate actors limit the social conversation on
environmental problems and their solutions. This thoughtful book
develops a set of tools for researchers, regulators and managers to
separate useful environmental information from empty corporate
spin, and will appeal to researchers and students of corporate
responsibility, corporate environmental strategy and sustainable
business, as well as environmental practitioners.
What is required to make a workplace safe for employees and legally
compliant with the Occupation Safety and Health Administration's
regulations? Building on the success of the first two editions of
Safety and Environmental Management, this updated and expanded
third edition discusses the elements that should be included in any
organization's safety plan, including sample plans to help guide
managers in creating safety protocols for their own companies. In
this book, author Frank Spellman covers the subjects of accident
investigation, hazard communication, hazardous waste handling,
confined space entry, fire and hot work safety, lockout/tagout
procedures, personal protective equipment, OSHA noise requirements,
and more.
This book reports the latest business practices, operations models,
technologies and circular supply chain structure of the fast
fashion companies and provides many important managerial insights
on the sustainable operations management in the fast fashion era.
Sustainability is a timely topic in both the academia and the
business world. In the fast fashion era, there are considerable
criticisms about its environmental pollution generated in the
manufacturing and post-consumption processes. Over the past
decades, many fast fashion companies, such as H&M, Zara, and
Uniqlo, have implemented different sustainable programs to mitigate
the negative impacts to the environment. Nowadays, the industry is
moving one step further by addressing zero landfill through 3Rs
principle (i.e., reducing, reusing and recycling), and pursuit of
the circular supply chains. This book aims to reveal the
exploratory, qualitative empirical and quantitative analytical
studies on how to achieve the goal of being environmentally
sustainable in the fast fashion era.
This investigation of the barriers to and opportunities for
promoting environmental sustainability in company law provides an
in-depth comparative analysis of company law regimes across the
world. The social norm of shareholder primacy is the greatest
barrier preventing progress, and it also helps explain why
voluntary action by companies and investors is insufficient. By
deconstructing the myth that shareholder primacy has a legal basis
and challenging the economic postulates on which mainstream
corporate governance debate is based, Company Law and
Sustainability reveals a surprisingly large unexplored potential
within current company law regimes for companies to reorient
themselves towards sustainability. It also suggests possible
methods of reforming the existing legal infrastructure for
companies and provides an important contribution to the broader
debate on how to achieve sustainability.
This book analyses from a management perspective how the aviation
industry can achieve a sustainability transformation in order to
reach the Paris climate targets for 2050 and provides various
strategic and operational recommendations in this regard. It
examines various elements of the aviation system exhaustively,
including technologies, consumers, airlines, airports and policies,
from both short- and long-term standpoints. Specific questions and
contradictions, as well as concrete options for taking action, are
presented. It also includes numerous practical case studies, which
will help practitioners transfer the concepts into their everyday
work. The book is aimed at a broad, professional audience
consisting of managers, politicians and regulators, but also at
advanced students engaged in academic and professional education.
This book presents the current causes and effects of implementing
sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as well as green supply
chain management (GSCM) strategies in the automotive industry. The
reader is provided a detailed scientific review on SSCM and GSCM
and presented the advantages of sustainable development concepts as
well as factors causing the implementation of SSCM such as buyers'
behavior, governmental regulations, and competitiveness. The book
then analyses the current situation of SSCM development,
particularly in the automotive industry. It shows challenges,
barriers, successes, and benefits that automotive companies obtain
from implementing GSCM. Through case studies on leading German car
manufacturers VW, BMW, and Daimler, the necessary activities of
these companies to implement green development in the entire supply
chain, including green supplier selection, green materials, green
transportation, and reverse logistics, are defined. Moreover, a
benchmark with companies from Asian markets such as Toyota from
Japan and Geely from China is performed.
Businesses promote their environmental awareness through green
buildings, eco-labels, sustainability reports, industry pledges and
clean technologies. When are these symbols wasteful corporate spin,
and when do they signal authentic environmental improvements? Based
on twenty years of research, three rich case studies, a strong
theoretical model and a range of practical applications, this book
provides the first systematic analysis of the drivers and
consequences of symbolic corporate environmentalism. It addresses
the indirect cost of companies' symbolic actions and develops a new
concept of the 'social energy penalty' - the cost to society when
powerful corporate actors limit the social conversation on
environmental problems and their solutions. This thoughtful book
develops a set of tools for researchers, regulators and managers to
separate useful environmental information from empty corporate
spin, and will appeal to researchers and students of corporate
responsibility, corporate environmental strategy and sustainable
business, as well as environmental practitioners.
Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next
great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already
here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical,
Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for
business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental
and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding
megatrends with the potential to reshape opportunities for growth.
Three cities of the future are emerging. The first is Petropolis,
the alluringly familiar but decreasingly resilient city, locked
into the century old technologies of fossil fuel-driven mass
production. This is the city of rising inequality, credit-fuelled
consumption, offshored jobs, climate volatility, and unsustainable
household and national debt. The second city is Cyburbia . This is
mass production on the steroids of IT: the latest manifestation of
science fictions city without pain, but one inhabited by
voice-activated popcorn dispensers, of athletics' shoes with
in-built Twitter feeds, of sensor-packed and censoring glass towers
that risk reducing their citizens to digital factors of production
in the supply chain of big data. The third is the Distributed City,
where technology is deployed with the intent to connect us not
virtually but physically-from Nairobi's network of innovation
spaces to Hamburg's Participatory Budgeting experiments, from
Barcelona's network for micro-manufacturing, to Austin's
distributed smart grid. These are the cities of society's future,
and they have very different implications for business success, and
our ability to navigate the social, economic, and environmental
megatrends that confront us. Blowfield and Johnson present the DNA
of the winners of the future, high growth and disruptive
businesses, emerging from the bottom up, and with the capacity to
tackle society's biggest challenges head on.
The debate on sustainable production often ends in discussions on
the feasibility of far-reaching changes in relation to the
competitiveness of companies. Industry itself and policy-makers
tend to back away from engaging in profound processes of industrial
transformation. Examples of companies who have voluntarily moved
beyond what is seen as 'reasonable' and 'feasible' can overcome
this deadlock. This book collects a fine sample of companies who
have taken up their responsibility in this respect. To quote the
editors of this book: "They are cases that might provide other
firms and policy-makers with ideas for innovative environmental
responses that are outside the slowly rising trend of improvement
that we are currently observing: in short, the cases are of firms
and ideas that are ahead of the curve." The editors and many of the
authors of this volume are members of the Greening of Industry
Network and have been debating with one another for years. Founded
in 1991, the Greening of Industry Network comprises over 1500
individuals representing academia, business, public interest, labor
and government from more than 50 countries. Participants work
together to build policies and strategies toward creating a
sustainable future through many vehicles -- coordinating research
efforts, publications, planning and participating in workshops,
public forums and conferences. To provide benefit to broader
society, the Network stimulates public dialogue and brings together
academic researchers from many disciplines with other stakeholders
who traditionally do not work together in coalitions.
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