Green Recovery, Andrew S. Winston
Green Recovery, Andrew S. Winston
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Green Recovery
Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge From the Downturn On Top

Author: Andrew S. Winston

Narrator: Andrew S. Winston

Unabridged: 3 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/29/2009


Synopsis

When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That’s a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to end before going green.

Green initiatives ratchet up your company’s resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital—and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and strategic priorities.

Part manifesto and part how-to guide, this concise and engaging audio book provides a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short-term gains and position your company for long-term strategic growth. You’ll discover how to:

• Get lean: Amp up your energy and resource efficiency to survive tough times.

• Get smart: Use environmental data about products and supply chains for competitive advantage.

• Get creative: Rejuvenate your innovation efforts by asking heretical questions such as “How might we operate with no fossil fuels?”

• Get going: Engage and excite employees to solve the company’s, your customers’, and the world’s environmental challenges.

Green Recovery is your guide to establishing your competitive positioning in difficult times and emerging even stronger into a vastly changed economy.

About Andrew S. Winston

Andrew S. Winston is the founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and helps leading companies use environmental thinking to innovate and grow. He was formerly the Director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale, a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, and an executive in marketing and business development at Time Warner and Viacom.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marc

This is an easy, nice, and important read. The book offers practical advice for companies, encouraging them to rally their people to get creative in solving environmental challenges and to lead the way to a more sustainable and profitable future. I had an interesting conversation with Andrew on my p......more

Goodreads review by Dimitar

It is an easy read providing concise ideas how to justify, encourage, and manage green efforts. It also provides specific examples of successes in different industries and types of companies from big multinationals to small brands dedicated to sustainability as a way of doing business.......more

I read the report put out by the Harvard Buisness Review which is available in digital format. The book is not out as of yet- or so it said. I like the approach of looking at how we can eliminate waste and work smarter to save money during this economic downturn. If there are ways to save money by n......more