The Book

Business Models for a Better World: and How to Become the Kind of Person Who Builds Them shows you how to connect your values to work that will change your life for the better while you are actively changing the world.

PREPARE: Most things worth having require preparation, and truly satisfying work is no exception.

Part One is about how to heighten and reinforce your value awareness.

It shows you how to combine your internal preparation (like taking full responsibility for your actions and visualizing different futures for yourself) with external support (from new or existing communities and networks) into an individual plan of action that will empower you to realize what you value the most through your work.

ENGAGE: Part Two of Business Models for a Better World begins with the proposition that you don’t have to stop “making a living” in order to “live to the fullest” when you go to work.

With business tools we all know how to use, wisdom from others using for-profit models to address social problems, and equal measures of self-awareness and resolve, you can realize your plan by building a business that will enable you to make the kind of lasting difference that you want to make in people’s lives.

In these harsh economic times, it is also about seizing the initiative and creating truly satisfying work for yourself when you can’t find it elsewhere.

This is a book that will help you to make the key decisions, and then go on to realize the kinds of returns you have always wanted (but never thought would be possible) from your work.