Books & Articles by Jeffrey Hollender
A list of books by Jeffrey Hollender, featuring reviews from thought-leaders in the space of corporate sustainability. Plus, a hand-picked list of books that have inspired, challenged and taught Jeffrey through his years.
Other Books by Jeffrey
The Responsibility Revolution
The Responsibility Revolution reveals the smartest ways for companies to build a better future.
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In Our Every Deliberation
All real possibility and potential begins in our own hearts and minds.
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What Matters Most
How a small group of pioneers is teaching social responsibility to big business, and why big business is listening.
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Jeffrey Hollender’s Must Reads
These books have inspired me, challenged me and taught me – I hope you find them as enjoyable as I have. The list includes the books I’ve read over the past few years that have most profoundly shaped my frame of reference on the world, the challenges we face and where the most promising opportunities lie.
The Inspired Protagonist’s Reading List:
- Presence, by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty S. Flowers
- The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler
- America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy by Gar Alperovitz
- Slower by Design, Not Disaster: Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster: Advances in Ecological Economics by Peter A Victor;
- The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing From Crisis to Sustainability, by James Gustave Speth
- The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse
- Capitalism as if the World Matters by Jonathan Porritt
- Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals And The Next Episode Of Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin
- Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives by Alvin and Heidi Toffler
- Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski and Betty S. Flowers
- A Company of Citizens: What the World’s First Democracy Teaches by Brook Manville and Josiah Ober
- Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus
- Creating Wealth, Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies Gwendolyn Hallsmith & Bernard Lietaer
- Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson.
- Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
Classic Books on Sustainable Business and Best Practices:
- Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins October 2000, Back Bay Books
- Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, Herman E. Daly, Paperback, August 1997 Beacon Press Books
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies; Collins, JC and Porras, JI, Random House 1995
- Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, John Elkington, Capstone1997, Can capitalism be sustainable? Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
- The Chrysalis Economy, How Citizen CEOs and Corporations Can Fuse Values and Value Creation; John Elkington, Capstone Publishing Ltd.; London; 2001.
- The Civil Corporation: The New Economy of Corporate Citizenship; Simon Zadek, Earthscan Publications Ltd.; London and Sterling, VA; 2001.
- Corporate Citizenship; Malcolm McIntosh, Deborah Leipziger, Keith Jones and Gill Coleman, Financial Times and Pittman Publishing; London; 1998.
- Cradle-to-Cradle: Putting Eco-Effectiveness into Practice by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Wisdom on designing products, companies, and systems that embrace true sustainable thinking, from two of the leading practitioners.
- Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Results, Harvard Business School Professor Lynn Sharp Paine’s groundbreaking 2002 book.