Category Archives: Book Review

3 Takeaways: Sustainable Excellence by Cramer and Karabell

By | Bio | Published: February 22, 2011

Aron Cramer, President and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, will join us for a Future of Green Open Conference Call on February 28 at 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 p.m. PT) to talk about his recent book Sustainable Excellence. We're in the age of information. Currently, there is a host of rich material from many [...]

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Shooting for the ST*RS : Building momentum in "The First 90 Days"

By | Bio | Published: July 28, 2010

Congratulations!  You got the job!  You’ve just been promoted!  You won the project!  Now what?  Enter The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels. This book contains a highly tactical approach for building early momentum that will put you on a trajectory for success, regardless of whether you are in [...]

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Book Review: “The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win”

By | Published: July 19, 2010

By David Bennett, Intern,  EDF Corporate Partnerships. In Jeffrey Hollender’s latest book, “The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win,” the co-founder and chairman of Seventh Generation lays out a compelling set of principles and practices for shaping environmental and social responsibility within an organization. Hollender offers sharp criticism of how the term, [...]

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Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness

By | Published: February 3, 2010

Have you ever gone shopping for a particular item, and after scanning shelf after shelf of virtually indistinguishable options, you throw the box bearing the “Energy Star” logo in your cart, even though it may be the most expensive choice? You’ve just been nudged. Seeing that logo made you assume that by purchasing that particular [...]

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Lessons from Innovation (the book)

By | Bio | Published: April 17, 2009

Passing through the MIT book store on my way to visit the Center for Collective Intelligence I stumbled across a copy of Richard Lester and Michael Piore's book "Innovation: The Missing Dimension." It was a happy accident as the book makes a few points that will help frame development of the Innovation Exchange. Based, in [...]

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