Warm greetings!
Chapter 1 Where Are the Fish? The New Competitive Reality
Chapter 2 Overfished Ocean Strategy: Five Principles That
Make It Work
Chapter 3 Principle One: Line to Circle
Chapter 4 Principle Two: Vertical to Horizontal
Chapter 5 Principle Three: Growth to Growth
Chapter 6 Principle Four: Plan to Model
Chapter 7 Principle Five: Department to Mindset
Chapter 8 The Death of Green…or Is Your Marriage
Sustainable?
Chapter 9 As a Means of Conclusion: What Should Business
Do?
My big thanks
Notes
Index
About the Author
Nadya Zhexembayeva is the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development at IEDC-Bled School of Management in Slovenia and a business owner active in real estate, investment, and consulting. Her recent clients include the Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation, and Vienna Insurance Group. She also serves as vice president of Challenge-Future, a global youth think-DO-tank. She earned her doctorate in organizational behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
“To bring three billion new middle-class consumers into the global
economy will require a revolution in resource productivity in
everything from farms to fisheries to factories. Zhexembayeva’s
groundbreaking book provides a road map for turning resource
scarcity—the ‘overfished ocean’—into a competitive advantage. She
shows how forward-looking businesses are already doing this and
explains how any business can do the same.”
—Joel Makower, Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group, Inc., and author
of Strategies for the Green Economy
“This book should be required reading for all business leaders who
have a sensitivity for our common dependence on natural systems,
whether fisheries, water, air, or soil. A compelling case for
business to do good and do well!”
—Chuck Fowler, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Fairmount
Minerals, Ltd.
“A resource-depleting world such as the one we currently live in
entails a radical shift toward new governing principles, innovative
ideas, and creative mindsets. It means taking a step back from the
traditional linear economy, where everything is consumed and
subsequently wasted, and finding the ‘disruptive innovation’ (as
the author skillfully names it) that transforms the line into a
circle. This book provides the set of rules that will guide you in
taking this leap of faith, while telling the inspiring stories of
the ones who have already done so. As CEO of an oil and gas company
that has placed ‘resourcefulness’ as the stepping-stone of its
strategy, I strongly recommend this book as an absolute must-read
for any business professional ready to embark on this challenging
but rewarding journey.”
—Mariana Gheorghe, CEO, OMV Petrom, and one of Fortune magazine’s
“Most Powerful Women: The International Power 50”
“If you are looking for a recipe against sustainability fatigue,
this book is definitely an eye-opener. Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva makes
a clear analysis of the need for a real radical, disruptive
innovative approach to cope with resource scarcity. She does not
aim to offer quick fixes, but she does recommend a strong thinking
framework. Her business examples are intriguing and hopeful. She
definitely offers the sustainability debate a new meaning and
businesses the appetite to consider new business models.
Refreshing!”
—Wilfried Grommen, Chief Technologist, Hewlett-Packard
“This is the best sustainability business book of the decade, no
question, because it is truly a business book—it’s not about
sustainability as an add-on but the future of a sensational
business model innovation. If you want to lead in the circular
economy, inspire new sources of value, and consistently create
uncontested market space, place this book at the core of your
breakthrough performance agenda. ‘This is what I’ve been looking
for for a long time’—that’s exactly what I think you are going to
say when you read this stunning and special book.”
—David L. Cooperrider, Fairmount Minerals Professor and Faculty
Chair, Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, Weatherhead School of
Management, Case Western Reserve University
“What would happen if a smart researcher and businesswoman wrote a
book on the broken state of our global economy and how to set it
right? In the best case, the outcome would resemble the artful
storytelling and crisp advice Nadya Zhexembayeva delivers us in
Overfished Ocean Strategy. We need every person inside business and
out to read Nadya’s book today. The good news: in doing so, readers
will not only learn key principles for enabling a flourishing
future but enjoy the process along the way. Kudos to Nadya for this
fresh addition to the short list of truly hopeful and helpful
guidebooks to the 21st century!”
—KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, founder and CEO, Sustainable Brands
"Nadya’s book is not about future, it’s about here and now. And a
great eye opener, a call for leadership with a view."
—Patrice Briol, Group Human Resources Director, Knauf
Insulation Business
“Amid the sea of dry sustainability books, Overfished Ocean
Strategy is a forceful tide of cutting-edge business stories and
essential facts brought vividly to life. Zhexembayeva writes with
passion and experience about radical business strategies for a
smarter, not just greener, world. She engages our senses and
emotions to deliver the broad brushstrokes of what it will take to
succeed in the future in business. A brilliant and refreshingly
fast-paced read!”
—Chris Laszlo, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Case
Western Reserve University, and coauthor of Embedded
Sustainability
“Overfished Ocean Strategy delivers five simple principles for
transforming business, not just through the next generation of
sustainability but through truly smart innovation. All those who
want to create new market space while creating deeper meaning for
themselves and customers need to read this book.”
—Soren Kaplan, author of Leapfrogging and speaker, consultant, and
entrepreneur
“The famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein warns that we
cannot solve complex problems from the same mindset that first
detects or diagnoses them. This important book helps us create that
shift of perspective necessary to address and embrace the call of
our times: to cocreate human institutions for a sustainable future.
Through the five principles underlying the Overfished Ocean
Strategy, the author gives practiced and actionable ways we can
re-vision our current and future challenges or opportunities to
produce truly sustainable enterprises that ensure individual and
collective flourishing for generations to come.”
—Ronald Fry, PhD, Professor of Organizational
Behavior, Case Western Reserve University
“When the question is not if but when, our responses in past
decades have been more like the ocean’s waves rather than tsunamis.
Today, at the edge of the tipping point, businesses, shareholders,
and governments need nothing less than the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the New Reality.’ Some of the guidance we need is revealed here in
this book. Nadya Zhexembayeva provides exquisite navigation through
fundamental questions of meaning and of real needs, through the
search beyond the boundaries of risk and of opportunities, and
toward radical change. Enjoy the journey and hope to see you in the
New Reality.”
—Andreja Kodrin, founder and President, Challenge: Future
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