The New Pioneers: Sustainable business success through social innovation and social entrepreneurshipISBN: 978-0-470-74842-8
Hardcover
280 pages
August 2010
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—Professor Klaus Schwab (from the foreword), Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum; Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
"The New Pioneers needs to be not only read – but
more importantly acted on – by all of us at the frontiers of
building and giving life to the new economy. As we enter the Age of
Sustainability, it will be the abundancy of our talents that will
drive innovation which sees the opportunity in extreme resource
scarcity. To harness these talents across the globe, embracing
different cultures on the basis of shared equity, we need to know
what works and who is doing what, framed by a challenge to current
mindsets. The New Pioneers provides all that - and much
more"
—Tony Manwaring, Chief Executive, Tomorrow's
Company
"The world is changing and the new pioneers are the ones
changing it. If you want to make sense of what's happening--or even
better, if you want to help make it happen--read this book. It's a
handbook for the global revolution!"
—Alan M. Webber, Co-founding Editor, Fast
Company magazine and Author, Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for
Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self
"We are living through one of history's great transitions
– from the Age of Greed to the Age of Responsibility –
and Tania Ellis's's "new pioneers" are at the leading edge of the
revolution. This is a book that informs and inspires, reminding us
that a better world is not only possible, but is already being
created. It is an insightful window on a remarkable movement -- and
a call to action for us all."
—Dr Wayne Visser, Director of CSR International and
author of The Age of Responsibility
"I welcome The New Pioneers, as a contribution to moving
forward the vision of more ethical and sustainable businesses,
reforming markets and growing "greener" economies worldwide. Tania
Ellis has performed a great service and we hope this book is
widely-read!"
—Hazel Henderson, author of Ethical Markets: Growing
the Green Economy (2006) and President, Ethical Markets Media (USA
and Brazil)
"For 150 years we have directed companies on two false
assumptions, viz. that planet earth had infinite resources and an
infinite capacity to absorb waste. The consequence is an ecological
crisis which has driven companies into a new economy –
business as unusual and learning to make more with less. The New
Pioneers illustrates that the stakeholder inclusive governance
approach now prevails and everyone has a role to play to make the
new face of capitalism work."
—Mervyn King, Chairman of the Global Reporting
Initiative
"Past explorers and pioneers found and exploited 'new worlds'.
Humanity will need multiple planets this century to meet its
growing agricultural, industrial and consumer needs, but we only
have one. So we have to build a new world on the one planet we
have. Tania Ellis shows how new breeds of social innovators and
entrepreneurs are leading the charge."
—John Elkington, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of
Volans, Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director of SustainAbility,
and Co-author of The Power of Unreasonable People
"If you are joining the social entrepreneurship revolution, or
seeking to apply its principles in a mainstream business setting,
this insightful and incredibly well researched book sets out the
rules of the road ahead."
—John Grant, Author of Co-opportunity and
The Green Marketing Manifesto
"Plan A is central to the future competitive success of Marks
& Spencer, and to our future relationship with customers and
suppliers alike. It is a powerful example that 'sustainable
development' is making its way into the core of business strategy.
It is no longer a nice-to-have, but a need-to-have. The New
Pioneers – packed with case studies and guided by the
principles which inform them – shows how companies are
leveraging their competitive advantage and building innovative
business models by putting sustainability into the core of their
thinking and practice"
—Richard S. Gillies, Director, Plan A, CSR &
Sustainable Business, Marks & Spencer
"Like James Cameroun with his movie Avatar is changing the film
industry from two dimensions to three dimensions, Tania Ellis's new
book shows the changing face of business from a one dimensional
profit focus to capitalism in three dimensions. The New
Pioneers takes the reader on a step-by-step journey through the
evolution of business and its stakeholders providing new insights,
lessons learned and roads to walk for creating a future where
business globally will play an important part of creating a better
world today and tomorrow."
—Mads Kjaer, founder of MYC4
"The New Pioneers is a very timely arrival that talks
about developing future leaders and talent as businesses begin to
recognize more and more that corporate sustainability is stretching
the bandwidth of both current business models as well as their
leadership profiles."
—Anant G Nadkarni, Vice President – Group
Corporate Sustainability, Tata
"In meticulous, convincing and heartening detail, Tania Ellis
rolls out persuasive evidence that a “responsibility
revolution” is well underway in the relationship between
consumers and corporations. It is empowered by global
communications networks the market revolutionaries of past
generations – from Henry Ford to Ralph Nader – could
never have conceived. It is inspired by indisputable proof –
from climate change to the Great Recession – that we are
indeed one world and that conscience is the best business model.
Today, with governments having difficulty addressing some of the
world's most perplexing problems, consumers, corporations and civil
society must take the lead. As Ms Ellis documents so skillfully,
that is precisely what they are doing."
—William Becker, Presidential Climate Action
Project