The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned From Patagonia’s First 40 Years Audiobook (Free)

Patagonia, called by Fortune in 2007 while the coolest firm on the planet, offers earned a status as much for its ground-breaking environmental and public practices as for the grade of its clothes. With this remarkably frank accounts, Chouinard and Stanley recount the way the company and its culture obtained the self-confidence, by step and misstep, to create its work steadily more responsible, and to eventually share its discoveries with businesses as huge as Wal-Mart or as small as the corner about The Accountable Business: What We’ve Discovered From Patagonia’s First 40 Years bakery.

In plain, engaging prose, the authors explain the current effect of manufacturing and commerce in the planet’s organic systems and individual communities, and how that impact now forces business to change its ways. The Responsible Company shows businesses how to decrease the damage they cause, improve the quality of their business, and offer the type of meaningful work everyone seeks. It concludes with specific, practical actions every business can undertake, as well as suggestions on what to do, in what order.

The advice within this book is easy but powerful: reduce your environmental footprint, help to make genuine products that last, reclaim deep knowledge of your business and its supply chain to make the most of opportunities in the a long time, and earn the trust you will need by treating your workers, customers and communities with respect.