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Business Lessons of a Radical Industrialist: How the Hard-Driving CEO of a Carpet Company You Never Heard of Doubled Earnings, Won New Customers, Inspired Employees, and Created Innovation...
Business Lessons of a Radical Industrialist How the HardDriving CEO of a Carpet Company You Never Heard of Doubled Earnings Won New Customers Inspired Employees and Created Innovation Author:Ray Anderson ?America?s greenest CEO? and the hero from the award-winning documentary The Corporation makes the urgent, compelling case that sustainable business pays. — His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a ?spear in the chest?: the founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dolla... more »r carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 82%, and the goal is to reach zero environmental footprint by 2020. Thoughtful and winning, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist shows how Anderson revolutionized his company, in the process bringing costs down, improving quality, making it one of Fortune?s ?100 Best Companies to Work For? ? and driving up profits.
*The publisher has aimed for sustainability in all aspects of this book?s production, from the inks and glues to the trim size. The interior paper is 100% post-consumer recycled, certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, and ancient-forest friendly. Instead of a jacket, the cover boards are wrapped in 100% recycled paper stock coated in a biodegradable varnish ? and these are just two examples among many.