Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
Green Swans
- The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
Green Swans
Buy Now for £16.00
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Even leading capitalists admit that capitalism is broken. Green Swans is a manifesto for system change designed to serve people, planet, and prosperity. In his 20th book, John Elkington - dubbed the "Godfather of Sustainability" - explores new forms of capitalism fit for the 21st century.
If Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swans" are problems that take us exponentially toward breakdown, then "Green Swans" are solutions that take us exponentially toward breakthrough. The success - and survival - of humanity now depends on how we rein in the first and accelerate the second.
Green Swans draws on Elkington's firsthand experience in some of the world's best-known boardrooms and C-suites. Using case studies, real-world examples, and profiles on emergent technologies, Elkington shows how the weirdest "Ugly Ducklings" of today's world may turn into tomorrow's world-saving Green Swans.
This book is a must-listen for business leaders in corporations great and small who want to help their businesses survive the coming shift in global priorities over the next decade and expand their horizons from responsibility, through resilience, and onto regeneration.
More from the same
What listeners say about Green Swans
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- byron
- 16-09-23
Gives a bit of hope against it all
Really helps think about how to make meaningful impact on climate issues. Think big and small, and ultimately stop the madness of investors profits over no future customers
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Oleg Koefoed
- 05-01-24
50 years of sustainability experience
Elkington has so much to tell, it matters less that some of his ideas might be more convincing than others. The sheer transmitting of all that experience makes it well worth the listen. Lots of inspiration within his field of business and sustainability. Maybe less strong on the regenerative future and the role of the public sector. Small thing that bothers me is the accent: why the American accent, when Elkington is British?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 24-09-22
Expansive thinking for the future
This is very eye-opening book, where the reader is taken on a shock start, by an economist updating his work.
The triple bottom line for businesses to encompass more than just profit was apparently not enough of a framework to support positive impacts within business. The author has generated a new way of working to help identify radical. These are called green swans and helpfully we are given plenty of examples to understand.
Well worth learning about!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Ms T. Evans
- 28-01-23
Essential reading on a regenerative future
Devoured this book over the weekend, having already read it in print when it came out. It is really worth (re-)reading periodically especially when the climate anxiety and the pushback or complacency crowds in.
Essential reading for those in business or exploring how we save capitalism from itself, or simply questioning how our current economic model can continue to serve us now or in the future.
Full of insights into the management and economic models that are responding to the need for a responsible, resilient and regenerative economy.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 17-02-23
Essential Sustainability Guide
Full of great examples and links to up to date thinking. Will recommend for my students.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!