Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact - Hardcover

by Paul C. Godfrey (Author), Emilio R. Tenuta (Author)

Straightforward strategies for achieving sustainable practices and business success in the modern organization

In Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact, a team of veteran sustainability experts delivers a practical toolkit for creating a forward-looking and sustainability-focused business. From Ecolab's origins in sustainability 100 years ago to its ambitious 2030 environment and social impact goals, this book lays out a roadmap for business transformation and continued growth - today and for the next 100 years.

You'll explore the principles and methods required to build and lead a sustainable company. You'll discover how to evolve your focus on sustainability over time, as your organization transforms and grows. You'll learn to:

• Build and maintain momentum for sustainability initiatives and cement your firm's commitment to new practices through iteration and aligning business units around core, shared sustainability goals.
• Embed new sustainable practices into your organization's governance and operations DNA
• Identify and leverage specific sustainability levers that impact a wide variety of key performance indicators
• Create a set of business processes that enable sustainable future and engage your employees in a higher purpose

An essential playbook for students of sustainability and business, this book is a must-read for the modern manager, executive, or director seeking to solidify their business strategy and future-proof their company. Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact describes the holistic and comprehensive approach to responsible business that we've all been waiting for.

Front Jacket

Events in the twenty-first century have made it exceedingly clear that many of the business practices relied on by modern companies are unsustainable. Whether they entail economically, environmentally, or socially harmful consequences, these practices endanger the future viability of the market, our society, and the planet at large. The time has come for contemporary business leaders to address and correct these unsustainable habits once and for all.

In Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact, the authors deliver an insightful and practical sustainability toolkit that can be applied to any organization to embed sustainable business practices into your corporate governance and operations DNA.

From the creation of a company-wide vision that encourages the adoption of sustainable systems to attracting the right people who will enable and improve upon existing sustainability measures, the book provides actionable techniques for business process improvement.

Built on two distinct but related frameworks, the book presents a set of tools that leaders can create and deploy to build a sustainable organization. It also considers the focus of sustainability over time and helps companies begin and maintain their sustainability journeys throughout the cycle. You'll learn to build momentum for your sustainability initiatives and cement your firm's commitment to its new practices through continuous iteration and experimentation.

An essential resource for directors, executives, managers, and other business leaders, Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact will also earn a place on the bookshelves of consultants and other professionals who serve organizations seeking to build and improve sustainable practices that will stand the test of time.

Back Jacket

A simple and effective approach to implementing sustainable business practices in your organization

Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact delivers a holistic and comprehensive sustainability toolkit designed to prepare organizations of all sizes for the twenty-first century and what lies ahead. Distilling key lessons that executives and leaders in any firm can understand and apply immediately, the book offers readers a more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable way of doing business.

The authors demonstrate two models that frame the story of Ecolab, a leading sustainability organization that helps companies around the world achieve their business goals, while improving their corporate re-sponsibility, environmental stewardship, and social impact. The first model represents the individual levers that executives can pull to improve on relevant sustainability measures and weave sustainability into the strategic and operating fabric of the company. The second model considers the organization's focus on sustainability over time.

Combined, the models described in Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact offer business leaders a new and exciting path to revenue and profit growth that doesn't rely on exploitative or time-limited strategies. It's an indispensable guide that will earn a place in the libraries of corporate and organizational leaders everywhere.

Author Biography

PAUL C. GODFREY, PHD, is the William and Roceil Low Professor of Business Strategy in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He is the author of More Than Money and Strategic Risk Management. He is also the co-author of Ethics and Business and Strategic Management.

EMILIO R. TENUTA is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Ecolab, a global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that help protect people and the resources vital to life. Over the past decade, Tenuta has led Ecolab's sustainability journey and has been actively involved in helping customers advance their global sustainability and ESG practices, with a focus on water stewardship and climate action.