ABSTRACT

On October 17, 2005, a small group of like-minded committed practitioners convened at Fairleigh Dickinson University and began a conversation about the conditions in the world and what was needed to bring about large-scale transformation to a more sustainable world. The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook is designed to align with an emergent framework of best-practice enterprise qualities. The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook and its innovative Living Fieldbook and online community support services offer a missing ingredient in the elements the authors think must come together to create a sustainable world. The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook is designed so that the reader may quickly and easily reference any individual enterprise quality and find resources, case studies, tools, and related materials that can be used to help transform any enterprise from its state to a more sustainable state. The chapter also presents some concepts discussed in this book.