Greening Business - John Davis

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Auteur(s) : John Davis

Editeur : Wiley

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/06/1994

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 224

Expédition : 371

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3

ISBN : 9780631193159

Résumé :
Preface.

Foreword: Ronnie Lessem.

1. What does Sustainable Development mean?.

2. Vision and Values.

3. Horses for Courses - the Size Factor.

4. The Numbers Game.

5. Good Work: Different Arrangements.

6. Conducting the Orchestra.

7. Pulling Together: Alternative Ownership.

8. Quality, Codes and Standards.

9. New Rules for the Business Game.

10. New Age Opportunities: Sustainable Technologies.

11. Postscript: The World's Search for New Systems.

Index.

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Biographie:
This book was very well-written in a secular and individual way. It gives a very realistic account of the day to day experience and some of the transitions that the soldiers endured between arrival, the Bulge Offensive, the thawing out and the Siegfried Line experience in 1945. It was a slog and everyday chipped at one's armor. The steadily encroaching realization that something bad or unlucky could happen accelerated as the offensive ebbed and snow thawed but the dangers (and mines/artillery) were still omnipresent. Some of the thoughts about critical enduring friendships (with his friend Archie) and those small but key facets that may have kept a man sane and capable of enduring one are well-described....

Sommaire:
Davis shows that the developed and developing world must now pursue 'sustainable development' requiring high levels of directed innovation. Industrial and commercial businesses of all kinds must bring about what amounts to a second industrial revolution....