Vitality and Renewal A Manager's Guide for the 21st Century

Subjects:

• Business » Management
• Science » Environmental Science
• Business » Industrial Organization

Reviews:

• Hutchinson, an environmental management consultant, presents a paradigm encouraging a sensitivity to environmental issues through strategic management of organizational change. The challenge is sustainable global development; the solution is a new ethos aligning the corporate profit culture with an innovative and socially responsive concern for our world's ecology. An excellent reference for the business curriculum as well as for programs with ecological concerns. Upper-division undergraduate through professional
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• Endorsement From
  Dr. Ian Cunningham, Chairman
  Centre for the Study of Change: This is a much needed book....Colin Hutchinson has drawn on his unrivalled experience to write a highly readable book which eschews jargon and unnecessary complexity.
• Endorsement From
  John Davis
  Former Chairman and MD of Shell Composites Ltd.: Any business that has no wish soon to become one of the endangered species...needs this guidebook in which the complexity of the change is made more manageable....This is a very timely production.
• Endorsement From
  John Elkington
  Founder of SustainAbility: [This book] explains why the early focus on new methodologies--including environmental impact analysis and life-cycle assessment--must now be expanded to embrace new corporate values.
• Endorsement From
  Michael J.E. Frye, Chairman
  Energy Efficient Institute: [Hutchinson's book] crystallizes the environmental challenge we face, describes how and what certain companies are doing to address this challenge right now, and offers practical hints of what we can all do about it.
• Endorsement From
  Guy Morton-Smith, Director
  Environmental Awareness Trust: I applaud its scope and its clarity of thought, analysis and good sense. If I could afford to give a copy to every manager in Britain, I should not hesitate to do so.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Executive Summary
• The Predicament
• The Nature of the Predicament
• How People Are Responding
• Values and Beliefs
• The Opportunities for Business
• What Is Sustainable Development?
• Tactical Responses to the Challenge
• Strategic Responses to the Challenge
• Self Development
• Who Is in Charge?
• Approaches to Management Organizational Change
• Personal Growth and Organizational Learning
• Making It Happen
• Processess and Techniques
• Getting the Most from the Process
• Appendix I: An Environmental Checklist
• Appendix II: Organizations with Environmental Policies
• Appendix III: Business Charter for Sustainable Development
• Appendix IV: The Earth Summit Agreement
• Bibliography
• Index