Doing Good By Doing Good: Why Creating Shared Value is the Key to Powering Business Growth and Innovation

Preface

So how does a former police officer come to write a book on corporate social responsibility? I often ask myself the same question, as the path from where I began to where I am now has hardly been a predictable one.

After leaving school I soon found myself in uniform. I worked at Merrylands and Cabramatta police stations in the late eighties and early nineties. It was frustration over attending back-to-back domestic disputes rather than a passion for science that led me to join the Physical Evidence Section (later to become the Forensic Services Group) of the NSW Police. I found my place there and would spend the next 15 years ‘on the tools’, attending major crime scenes and incidents.

For 10 years I lived in rural New South Wales, ...