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The Company We Keep : réinventer les petites entreprises pour les gens, la communauté et le lieu

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Binding: Hardcover

Weight: 1 lbs

Product Group: Book

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ISBN: 9781931498739

EAN: 9781931498739

Publication Year: 2005

Format: Book, Hardcover

Language: English

Author: John Abrams

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Number of Pages: 328 Pages

À propos de ce produit

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Abrams is cofounder and CEO of South Mountain Company, an employee- owned design and building company on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. In this volume, he offers the 30-person company as a model for how a company can become as much of a community as a business.

Product Identifiers

Publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing

ISBN-10

1931498733

ISBN-13

9781931498739

eBay Product ID (ePID)

44474734

Product Key Features

Author

John Abrams

Format

Book, Hardcover

Language

English

Publication Year

2005

Number of Pages

328 Pages

Dimensions

Weight

19.5 Oz

Height

1.1in

Width

6in

Length

9in

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

Hd9715.U54s682 2005

Publication Date

2005-05-30

Reviews

"I am using your book as a required text in my course on social entrepreneurship at Berkeley this semester. I recently finished reading it and really love what you wrote. I won't go into all my thoughts in this email but suffice it to say I think you have built a model which is exemplary and others should emulate if we want to make our lives, families, communities, nations, and the world a more meaningful, prosperous, healthy, and enjoyable place. Looking forward to sharing more thoughts and ideas over a brew or coffee next time you are out this way." --Paul Frankel, Lecturer, Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, "One of the best, most exciting business books I have ever read." --Anne Alexander, Authentic Alternatives Business Breakthroughs Coaching, "If faced with the proverbial literary quandary--a deserted island--I most certainly would set aside all those fictional masterpieces and cart along this endearing and irresistibly hopeful book on how to reconstruct my home and livelihood on an island.... Abrams' work is a compelling and celebratory reminder that companies like South Mountain are desperately needed in a time of real estate boom and inevitable bust and the ruins left in their wake." --Jeff Biggers , The Bloomsbury Review, "This book has irreversibly changed my attitude toward business and life altogether. It's powerful." --Martin Knauss, Lehigh Construction Group, Seventh Generation Vol 6 No. 11 September 2005 Required Reading: "Building a Business Foundation for a Brighter Future" It's interesting that in this day and age, so many companies continue to balk at the idea of adopting a genuine model of true social and environmental responsibility. Aside from the fact that the need for this kind of positive change has long since been past the point of obvious, it's just the right thing to do from both a moral and an economic perspective. Socially responsible business simply makes all kinds of common sense. A new book shows us how people can make it happen but why they should. Like virtually all titles in its category, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place , by John Abrams, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2005 makes a case for strong workplace values and shows how we can ultimately profit from such a strategy. But unlike most of its fellow volumes, this book is also a personal tale, one liberally sprinkled with wisdom about ideas small and large that the author has accumulated during his 30+ year journey as founder of the South Mountain Company, a Martha's Vineyard design and building firm. Through a commitment to community entrepreneurship, Abrams has seen the company grow and prosper. At the same time, he's experimented with a revolutionary employee ownership model that challenges the traditional business model of unchecked growth. While The Company We Keep tells the personal success story of this revolutionary company, that's just the beginning of all the places it goes. Written in a down-to-earth conversational voice and laced with insightful side trips that offer additional lessons, Abrams examines the role business can and should play in creating and sustaining healthy communities. He sets down a framework for a model of employee ownership and community involvement that works. In the words of the author, "This is a book about a different way of doing business in today's world, a way based on workplace democracy, shared ownership, staying small, building community, making a commitment to place, and long term thinking." Rejecting the myth that short-term profits are the only indicator of business health and wealth, Abrams offers eight cornerstone principles. He shows how building a company upon these principals to serve the needs of employees inside, the community outside, and the environment both depend upon can create a business that's successful by traditional and nontraditional measures alike. To that end his book is part entrepreneurial business plan, part guide to democratizing the workplace, and part prescription for strong local economies. A series of detailed appendices explain how his company set up its employee ownership program, how meeting facilitation and consensus decisions work, and how Abrams performed a community visioning for Martha's Vineyard. This places much of the how-to nuts and bolts in the back of the book, preventing this technically oriented material from bogging down the breezy main text with nitty-gritty. The result is a thoroughly readable and eminently enjoyable book, and an important new addition to the library of anyone concerned with finding better ways to create a better world., "Useful to organizations everywhere that appreciate that bigger isn't always better, money isn't always the endgame and true success comes from the meaningful work of dedicated people." --E: The Environmental Magazine, " The Company We Keep [is] a manifesto outlining . . . passionate belief in employee ownership, corporate responsibility, sustainable design, and the spirit of craftsmanship." --James McCown, Boston Globe Sunday, "Vineyard Mover and Saver" (Real Estate section), "John Abrams is a philosopher disguised as a businessman. His chapter challenging the gospel of growth ought to be read by every business person struggling to keep up with a crushing workload, and wondering why we're all so determined to grow bigger and faster when it's killing us (and the planet). John shows how we can step off the treadmill and back into life." --Marjorie Kelly, editor, Business Ethics, "An Exceptional, Insightful Guide for Socially Conscious Business." --The MidWest Book Review, "John Abrams tells a wonderful story, full of ideas about our society. We all need the South Mountain Company--and its human lessons." --Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner, "John Abrams takes readers on a journey that is as rich, fulfilling and purposeful as the company that he has lovingly helped to shape and steward over the last two decades. The Company We Keep is a soulful and refreshing reminder that businesses are no different from families, communities or for that matter any other human organization--without mission or purpose, they can be lifeless, irrelevant and even destructive, but infused with intention, they can sow the seeds for a hopeful future. Abrams' employee owned South Mountain Company serves as an example that entrepreneurs are only limited by our imaginations when it comes to prioritizing care, kindness and compassion for employees, community and the environment." --Gary Hirshberg, President and CE-YO, Stonyfield Farm, Inc., "John Abrams is not only one of my favorite builders on the planet, he's also one of my favorite thinkers. In this age of mergers and acquisitions, where bigger is always better and money is the only bottom line, The Company We Keep offers hope for those of us who value craft, compassion, and community." --Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding, " The Company We Keep . . . is a must-read for anyone considering employee ownership or striving to create sustainable companies and communities." --Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, "While The Company We Keep tells the personal success story of this revolutionary company, that's just the beginning of all the places it goes. Written in a down-to-earth conversational voice and laced with insightful side trips that offer additional lessons, Abrams examines the role business can and should play in creating and sustaining healthy communities. He sets down a framework for a model of employee ownership and community involvement that works." --Seventh Generation, " The Company We Keep is a great read with a great message that should have relevance to virtually any company that cares about more than making money." --Alex Wilson, Executive Editor of Environmental Building News, "John Abrams gives entrepreneurs what they really need: proof that sustainable business works." --Ben Cohen, Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and President of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities

Foreword by

William Greider

Table of Content

Foreword Chapter 1: Cornerstones Chapter 2: Cultivating Workplace Democracy Chapter 3: Challenging the Gospel of Growth Chapter 4: Balancing Multiple Bottom Lines Chapter 5: Committing to the Business of Place Chapter 6: Celebrating the Spirit of Craft Chapter 7: Advancing People Conservation Chapter 8: Practicing Community Entrepreneurism Chapter 9: Thinking Like Cathedral Builders Chapter 10: The Company We Keep Acknowledgments Appendices 1. South Mountain Employee Ownership Particulars 2. Meeting Facilitation and Consensus Decision Making 3. South Mountain Companys Vineyard Future Sketch Notes Selected Bibliography and Resources Index

2005

Lccn

2005-000484

Dewey Decimal

338.7/6908/0974494

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