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The High-Purpose Company
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The High-Purpose Company

by Christine Arena
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 38m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
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Prologue:

It’s Not What (or Who) You Think

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going.

—LEONARDO DA VINCI

“There is something stirring unlike anything else I’ve seen in the past twenty years,” says Paul Hawken, the controversial author, activist, entrepreneur, and founder of eco-friendly retail company Smith & Hawken. “There is original thinking going on.”

Original thinking, Hawken believes, is the one key to triple bottom-line success. It’s what separates the winners from the losers—the truly remarkable and innovative companies from the masses of others that adopt popular terminology like “socially responsible,” ...

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