The Regenerative Business: Redesign Work, Cultivate Human Potential, Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes

by Carol Sanford Narrated by Katherine Fenton

Overview

"The work that Carol Sanford describes in The Regenerative Business profoundly changed my life, and I'm confident it will change yours too." - Jeffrey Hollender, Founding CEO, Seventh Generation

What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organization to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new-something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market? The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today's forward-thinking leaders and paves the path to make it possible. The book features:

• Real stories from companies leading innovation and transformation across the globe including; Google, Colgate Europe, Seventh Generation, Nike and others
• A logical, comprehensive approach that factors in the complexities of the modern organization
• The work of internationally recognized leadership expert Carol Sanford, who for decades has been designing and leading systemic business change

Editorial Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

2017-11-22
A handbook for creating a responsive company culture that offers employees a chance to shine.In this work, Sanford (The Responsible Entrepreneur, 2014) encourages business leaders to move away from top-down authoritarian decision-making to a more collaborative process that incorporates the needs of all stakeholders. Drawing on organizational theory and her own consulting work with a number of large companies, such as the bottled-water company Deer Park, Sanford offers examples of successful organizational change and the logic underlying such corporate evolution. The book also addresses what she calls "toxic" elements (hierarchical decision-making, performance reviews and feedback, restructuring) in many traditional workplaces. These, she says, must be eradicated before one can implement the titular "regenerative" process successfully—a sort of whole-lifestyle makeover. In the book's third section, Sanford guides readers through the process of applying her regenerative principles to their businesses, dividing the process into five thematic sections, or "phases," such as "Evolve into Strategic Disruption" and "Evolve a Courageous Culture." Several chapters conclude with questions designed to drive discussion and generate ideas ("What principles should guide the way we redesign our systems so that their original purposes are fulfilled, even as we make them more workable and developmental?"). Although the more theoretical portions of the book do indulge in jargon, Sanford's prose is mostly unambiguous: "bad work design relegates human beings to activities that are repetitive, uncreative, unrewarding, and spirit killing." The author makes a compelling case for adopting a new approach to structuring work, with solid examples of successful practices and guidance for business leaders who are just starting their evaluations of their own workplaces. Business-book connoisseurs will find plenty of new material in this text along with a cogent, persuasive argument.A straightforward overview of organizational theory and practice.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175497411
Publisher:	Ascent Audio
Publication date:	06/14/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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