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Net Positive
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Net Positive

by Paul Polman, Andrew Winston
October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 48m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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PREFACE

From Paul

To tell you the truth, I have long hesitated to write a book as I have always felt that most of what I would say has been said or, as is the case for many CEOs, would be seen as an ill-conceived attempt to rewrite one’s own history. That never appealed to me. However, Adi Ignatius, the editor in chief of Harvard Business Review, convinced me of the importance of sharing Unilever’s and my own transformational story with a broader audience, as well as thoughts on where we need to go. The prospect of writing it with Andrew Winston made me finally decide to go ahead. I have long admired Andrew for his books The Big Pivot and Green to Gold, which I have leveraged extensively while running Unilever. Both books were ahead of their ...

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ISBN: 9781647821319