Profit for Life: How Capitalism Excels

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Von der hinteren Coverseite: Few changes promise to have more leverage in the long journey toward sustainability than aligning investment capital flows with sound social and environmental stewardship. Bragdon provides quantitative confirmation that such alignment can produce superior financial performance.

--Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and founding chair of SoL

Profit for Life is an amply proven and seminal work which provides a crucial roadmap for business effectiveness.

--W. Michael Brown, former CEO, The Thomson Corporation

This is a landmark book, one which freshly imagines and reframes the basic purposes of the corporation in accord with our democratic values. It is especially welcome during a period of extreme doubt and cynicism about the morality of unhinged capitalism.

--Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of Southern California and author of On Becoming a Leader

Profit for Life's message is simple: it's all about people. When you focus on building a culture that engenders trust and loyalty, people will create the profitability that in turn drives value creation for all your company's stakeholders.

--Dan DiMicco, President and CEO, Nucor

Business is going to play a role in getting us out of the hole that business helped dig. Bragdon has done a masterful job of understanding how that might happen, and he's done it by going to the very roots of corporate behavior.

--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Wealth of Communities

Great managers instinctively know the compounding effects on capital assets of nurturing people and respecting their values. Bragdon has animated this principle in a powerful dialogue that invigorates while it informs . . . bravo!

--Michael Angelides, Chairman, First Angel Capital

Profit for Life is a fresh, provocative, and well-researched take on an otherwise tired subject. It will force the reader to rethink old precepts. --Hardwick Simmons, former CEO, Nasdaq