I was looking forward to reading this book, but was disappointed.\u00a0 It didn’t really expand thinking or offer a useful framework for personal and business transformation.\u00a0 The Natural Step may well be useful, but the book doesn’t really show how.<\/p>\n
It offers a handful of case studies of businesses that have used the Natural Step to reengineer business process.\u00a0 But these are more self-marketing than revealing.\u00a0 It also presents itself in a rather exclusive way, which becomes more ironic when one of the case studies turns out to be about a company that started to pursue sustainable biomimicry before introduction to the Natural Step, that company is Interface.\u00a0 I found the book to be a bit academic and self-serving and not very inspiring.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, if you know nothing about sustainability you might find it revealing.<\/p>\n
The Natural Steps for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation<\/a> 2\/5 stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was looking forward to reading this book, but was disappointed.\u00a0 It didn’t really expand thinking or offer a useful framework for personal and business transformation.\u00a0 The Natural Step may well be useful, but the book doesn’t really show how. It offers a handful of case studies of businesses that have used the Natural Step …
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