Forces for Good: Creating a better world through purpose-driven businesses
About this ebook
There’s a new generation of businesses emerging. They’re working together to make a positive impact on the world by redefining what it means to be successful.
By changing the way you work and considering the impact of the decisions you make, you can join them in reducing poverty, injustice and environmental damage by balancing purpose with profit.
In this ground-breaking book, you will discover how these purpose-driven businesses work and how you can:
Increase productivity by fully embracing diversity and developing an inclusive culture.Put respect, courtesy and compassion at the heart of your business.Maximise profits whilst prioritising the needs of people and the planet.Attract an engaged and motivated workforce that’s focused on success and sustainability.Join the growing global community of leaders and like-minded businesses that are putting what they do to work as a force for good.
About the author
Paul Hargreaves’ business, Cotswold Fayre, started by accident as a means of supplementing his income from charity work within inner-city London. It quickly grew to become the leading speciality food wholesaler in the UK. Always wanting greater justice in the world, Paul has realised over the past 20 years that businesses have immense power to create a better world and is keen as a UK B Corp Ambassador for many other businesses to do their part to change the world for the better.
