The Responsible Company

Auteur: Vincent Stanley

Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to ultimately share its discoveries with companies as large as Wal-Mart or as small as the corner bakery.

In plain, compelling prose, the authors describe the current impact of manufacturing and commerce on the planet’s natural systems and human communities, and how that impact now forces business to change its ways. The Responsible Company shows companies how to reduce the harm they cause, improve the quality of their business, and provide the kind of meaningful work everyone seeks. It concludes with specific, practical steps every business can undertake, as well as advice on what to do, in what order.

This is the first book to show companies how to thread their way through economic sea change and slow the drift toward ecological bankruptcy. Its advice is simple but powerful: reduce your environmental footprint (and its skyrocketing cost), make legitimate products that last, reclaim deep knowledge of your business and its supply chain to make the most of opportunities in the years to come, and earn the trust you’ll need by treating your workers, customers and communities with respect.


Vincent Stanley

Director of Philosophy Patagonia

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Vincent Stanley

Director of Philosophy Patagonia
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Vincent Stanley, co-auteur met Yvon Chouinard van The Responsible Company, werkt al vanaf de start bij het iconische kledingmerk Patagonia in verschillende marketingrollen en als hoofd verkoop. Sinds lange tijd is hij de voornaamste storyteller van Patagonia. Vincent was betrokken bij de ontwikkeling van de Footprint Chronicles, de interactieve website van het merk dat de sociale en ecologische impact van de producten beschrijft; het Common Threads Partnership (voorloper van Worn Wear); en name het initiatief voor Patagonia Books. Op dit moment is hij director of Philosophy bij Patagonia en resident fellow bij het Yale Center for Business and Environment.

Onderwerpen waarover hij spreekt zijn onder andere: purpose, duurzaamheid, ethiek. (sociaal) ondernemerschap, marketing en impact leadership.

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