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The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman / Jeroen Smit ; translated from Dutch by Jenny Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smit, Jeroen, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employees.
- Environmental responsibility.
- Leadership.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : First Hill Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- The Great Battle or The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman describes the origins of Unilever and the role former CEO Paul Polman (2009-2019) played in Unilever_s quest for acting responsibly in a world that is being threatened by climate change, lack of biodiversity, pollution and growing tensions between rich and poor. In The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman Smit reconstructs the lessons we can learn from a courageous pioneer who was also ahead of his time.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- A Near-Death Experience: Friday, 10 February 2017
- PART 1 DOING WELL AND DOING GOOD, 1994-2007
- CHAPTER 1 Mea Culpa, We're Completely in the Wrong: 1994-1998
- CHAPTER 2 Two Captains, One Helm: 1998-2001
- CHAPTER 3 Mutinous Men
- We Can't Go On Like This: 2001-2005
- CHAPTER 4 A French Bookkeeper Puts Share Price Centre Stage: 2005-2007
- CHAPTER 5 Outsiders in Charge: 2007-2008
- PART 2 DOING GOOD AND DOING WELL, 2008-2016
- CHAPTER 6 Only Responsible Companies Go the Distance: September-December 2008
- CHAPTER 7 Growing, Growing, Growing […] and Doing Good: December 2008-January 2010
- CHAPTER 8 It's Not a Job, It's a Calling: February-November 2010
- CHAPTER 9 Colours to the Mast: November 2010-October 2011
- CHAPTER 10 But We Can't Do This Alone: January 2012-March 2013
- CHAPTER 11 Making Money Can Never Be the Goal: April-October 2013
- CHAPTER 12 The World's Biggest NGO: November 2013-February 2015
- CHAPTER 13 More Priest Than CEO: March-December 2015
- CHAPTER 14 Too Far Ahead of His Troops: January 2016-January 2017
- PART 3 DOING WELL AND DOING GOOD, 2017-2019
- CHAPTER 15 'Rescued' by Warren Buffett: 11 February-7 March 2017
- CHAPTER 16 A Mayor in Wartime: March-April 2017
- CHAPTER 17 For Sale: Dutch DNA, Milked Dry: May-December 2017
- CHAPTER 18 'Rotterdoom': Mission Impossible: January-September 2018
- CHAPTER 19 The Pioneer Feels Misunderstood: October-December 2018
- CHAPTER 20 Paul Polman's Lonely High Road: January-July 2019
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary of Names.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-83998-894-0
- 1-83998-893-2
- OCLC:
- 1388492947
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