Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) conscious investing is reshaping global capital markets. NetPositive is the best single volume explanation of why world leading companies like Uniliver are embracing ESG high-performance and how, exactly, their longer term, multi-stake holder, approach to value creation in an increasingly transparent and uncertain world enables ESG high performers to “give more than they take” but end up out-performing their competition. US based Andrew Winston has joined London based John Elkington as the world’s leading authority on Corporate Sustainability. Winston wrote NetPositive with Paul Polman the long-time visionary CEO of Uniliver. This has helped make NetPositive both Winston’s most ambitious and practical book. Because Winston and Polman don’t ignore the elephants in the room. Including the facts that: (a) self-accelerating human caused climate breakdown is reshaping our world, (b) it is worsening unprecedented social and racial inequities that make the crisis harder to address and (c) national administrative states and global corporations need to develop and implement new market rules for all to move increasingly fractious societies towards greater sustainability. Consequently, the best of companies will follow Uniliver’s lead, repudiate quarterly capitalism and act courageously to partner with local, state and national governments, labor, suppliers and host communities and give more than they take to invest in partnerships for long-term value creation. As Uniliver did fending off hostile takeover, courting strategic acquisitions their competition could not win and creating whole new markets with public and NGO sector partners. If you want to know how scaling global businesses can confidently serve human aims and purposes - and beat their competition because of it - read this book.

Anyone who wants to know how to transform their business so that it improves the well-being of every one of their company’s stakeholders- WHILE being highly profitable- needs to read this important book. Brimming with useful principles, frameworks, and examples, this book describes how that’s achieved. Given the dire state of climate change and its interconnections with many social issues, the moral argument for companies to become “net positive” is decisively made. But few books give such helpful guidance on HOW to create social and environmental benefit while creating long-term profitability. Leading the reader through each level of transformation- from the internal cultural changes to the many systems changes that extend beyond the company’s doors, Paul Polman and Andrew Winston offer a comprehensive and incredibly useful guide for all of us. And no one is better qualified to write this book than the Polman and Winston team, whose combined experience and knowledge on this topic is unparalleled. Read it, and offer all your employees an opportunity to read and discuss it in small groups together so they can implement its many ideas. Your company and our planet will all benefit.

This book definitely was written by a liberal with a strong distaste or attitude for anyone not seeing issues exactly as he does.However, we both agree on quite a few issues when it comes to how employees are the MOST important asset in any company and how important it is to treat them like the diamonds they are! We also agree in the importance of leadership, sustainability and many other leadership issues which all who are in these roles need to keep as top priorities in a company. He perhaps leans more of government intervention than my perspective as they are way to slow to act, and most often their actions reflect the particular party in power, versus the good of ALL the people regardless of political party!I am glad I read the book and found a lot in good takeaways from a leadership perspective and think anyone running a company in today's environment, regardless of political parties, would find this book an excellent read! I know I did.Put aside the political issues and focus on the heart of the two men that wrote this book and their overall viewpoint that we need to GIVE more than take! An excellent perspective in any leadership role. I just wished politicians had that same mindset and this would be an even GREAT country vs one party against another!

Net Positive is a very noteworthy contribution to the environmental and business literature. Many of the lofty goals currently being discussed by countries and companies are to achieve net zero with 2050 oftentimes set as their date. However, net zero by 2050 will be insufficient for us to grow back better - ie, not only must we reduce our environmental impacts but we also need to create environmental pathways to restore what has been lost over the past 50 years, eg, biodiversity and habitats. Net positive is a strategy that illuminates a path forward.Polman and Winston provide a vision and strategy for what we need to do if we are going to thrive. They provide their vast insight to explain why and how we must work together to protect the environment, with companies taking a leadership role. Hopefully, the private and financial sectors will pay close attention to their book and net positive efforts will be supported by the public sector, civil society, and the public.I like their example and analogy of Roger Bannister breaking the 4-minute mile in 1954. After his breakthrough achievement, other runners followed and also broke through this boundary. There are now over 1,500 athletes who have run sub 4-minute miles. This has become the standard achievement for middle distance runners. Net positive will also need to be a standard achievement for companies - giving more than they take.

Easy to read with a lot of useful information including relevant examples.

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..for business leaders who believe in conscious capitalism. it reaffirms your beliefs in the world that makes profits without losing the sight of purpose that is humanitarian. well written. I am glad I found it..

Geradezu revolutionäre Ideen vor dem Hintergrund von über 50 Jahren Kapitalismus. Nicht nur der Aktionär, sondern alle Beteiligten sollen/müssen von einem Unternehmen/ einer Unternehmung profitieren… viele gute praktische Tipps, und Denkanstöße.Lieferung hat leider lange gedauert…