If you are anything at all like me, even a smidgen (a small bit), some changes just come very hard in your life. I know that quitting smoking was like that for me, until the day I just did it cold turkey twelve years ago (after decades of smoking) and haven’t had a cigarette since; actually, like many ex-smokers, I hate the smell of cigarette smoke. Getting in shape with diet and exercise has been another such challenge.
In recent …
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Chris Laszlo, Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good with a Foreword by Patrick J. Cescau, Group Chief Executive Office, Unilever, Stanford, CA, US A: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, 2007.