Business success starts at values
- September 11, 2008 |
- CEO Update
Bestselling author predicts a responsibility revolution fueled by a new generation. By Joe Eaton What lessons can associations learn from the greening of the carpet manufacturing industry? Tim Sanders, author of the new book Saving the World at Work, says the carpet industrys move from toxic to green provides an important lesson about how an organization can prosper by doing the right thing. In 1994, after an employee from the Atlanta-based carpet manufacturer Interface Inc. questioned the companys environmental record, CEO Ray Anderson made an against the grain call and penned a new mission statement promising to make the company environmentally neutral by 2020.… Read More