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Best Sustainable Business Books of 2014

John Elkington · 16 November 2014 · Leave a Comment

Just in to New York for a couple of days whizzing around – and am preparing comments for an evening hosted by my literary agent, Doris Michaels, at her home by Central Park on Tuesday. It’s virtually her swan-song, because she is handing over to Sheree Bykofsky. And in the process of thinking through what I would say, I recalled reviewing a barrowload of sustainable business books for strategy + business magazine a month or two back, the results of which process are now on their website.

It made me realise that the three books I have done with Doris – The Power of Unreasonable People (2008), The Zeronauts (2012) and The Breakthrough Challenge (2014) – have been, in effect, a trilogy. The first largely looked at people attempting the impossible outside the business mainstream, the second largely at people attempting it inside, and the third largely looks at what we now need to do to the rules of the market game to ensure that all aspects of capitalism now jump to a different level.

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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