Straightforward strategies for achieving sustainable practices and business success in the modern organization
In Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact, a team of veteran sustainability experts delivers a practical toolkit for creating a forward-looking and sustainability-focused business. From Ecolab's origins in sustainability 100 years ago to its ambitious 2030 environment and social impact goals, this book lays out a roadmap for business transformation and continued growth - today and for the next 100 years.
You'll explore the principles and methods required to build and lead a sustainable company. You'll discover how to evolve your focus on sustainability over time, as your organization transforms and grows. You'll learn to:
- Build and maintain momentum for sustainability initiatives and cement your firm's commitment to new practices through iteration and aligning business units around core, shared sustainability goals.
- Embed new sustainable practices into your organization's governance and operations DNA
- Identify and leverage specific sustainability levers that impact a wide variety of key performance indicators
- Create a set of business processes that enable sustainable future and engage your employees in a higher purpose
An essential playbook for students of sustainability and business, this book is a must-read for the modern manager, executive, or director seeking to solidify their business strategy and future-proof their company. Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact describes the holistic and comprehensive approach to responsible business that we've all been waiting for.
A simple and effective approach to implementing sustainable business practices in your organization
Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact delivers a holistic and comprehensive sustainability toolkit designed to prepare organizations of all sizes for the twenty-first century and what lies ahead. Distilling key lessons that executives and leaders in any firm can understand and apply immediately, the book offers readers a more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable way of doing business.
The authors demonstrate two models that frame the story of Ecolab, a leading sustainability organization that helps companies around the world achieve their business goals, while improving their corporate responsibility, environmental stewardship, and social impact. The first model represents the individual levers that executives can pull to improve on relevant sustainability measures and weave sustainability into the strategic and operating fabric of the company. The second model considers the organization's focus on sustainability over time.
Combined, the models described in Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact offer business leaders a new and exciting path to revenue and profit growth that doesn't rely on exploitative or time-limited strategies. It's an indispensable guide that will earn a place in the libraries of corporate and organizational leaders everywhere.
