The Evolution a Corporate Idealist, Christine Bader
The Evolution a Corporate Idealist, Christine Bader
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The Evolution a Corporate Idealist
Girl Meets Oil

Author: Christine Bader

Narrator: Rose Itzcovitz, Christine Bader

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/01/2014


Synopsis

There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world’s biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don’t always succeed.

Christine Bader was one of those people. She loved BP and then-CEO John Browne’s lofty rhetoric on climate change and human rights -- until a string of fatal BP accidents, Browne’s abrupt resignation under a cloud of scandal, and the start of Tony Hayward’s tenure as chief executive, which would end with the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Bader’s story of working deep inside the belly of the beast is unique in its details, but not in its themes: of feeling like an outsider both inside the company (accused of being a closet activist) and out (assumed to be a corporate shill); of getting mixed messages from senior management; of being frustrated with corporate life but committed to pushing for change from within.

The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: Girl Meets Oil is based on Bader’s experience with BP and then with a United Nations effort to prevent and address human rights abuses linked to business. Using her story as its skeleton, Bader weaves in the stories of other “Corporate Idealists” working inside some of the world's biggest and best-known companies.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Owen on October 07, 2018

Was supposed to read this for a sophomore year class about business and human rights...whoops! Glad I still got around to it. I hope one day this book's subject matter won't be such a niche topic. I think a lot of my friends in the corporate world would find value in reading it. Book's overall structu......more

Goodreads review by Bibliovoracious on November 06, 2018

A window into a world I know nothing about, and quite a reassuring and uplifting take-home message: within corporations everywhere, there are people working with passion for the greater good.......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on June 29, 2018

I think this book is important and very helpful to those of us who identify as “corporate idealists”. I’ve seen little other literature on this subject and I was very excited to read it. Many points resonated with me and gave me new perspectives on how to a. Job search and b. turn my idealism into p......more

Goodreads review by Ra on January 22, 2018

Has some interesting ideas about working as an idealist from inside the corporate world. How companies do it, but mostly how individuals find their way into the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the challenges they (and their companies face). More of a roadmap of the territory, and......more

Goodreads review by Linda on December 20, 2019

Christine Bader’s book is a cogent and concise book that introduces readers into the world of corporate idealists and their impact on CSR. Through her anecdotes of her role as a corporate human-rights specialist for BP in Indonesia and China, Bader makes an argument that even some of the globe’s lar......more