Do Build: How to make and lead a business the world needs

by Alan Moore

Overview

The world of business is changing. The single pursuit of "profit at any cost" has been replaced by a desire to build companies that create a better future — and enjoy commercial success.

In Do Build, Alan Moore draws on his years of research into some of the most pioneering and progressive businesses on the planet. By speaking to their purpose-driven founders,he discovers that it is possible to lead with generosity, have a transparent supply chain, design products and services that are considered and joyful, and create a company culture where individuals flourish.

By sharing examples of best practice, Moore invites us to create a different type of business: one that will regenerate and restore our economy, our environment, and our civilization.

Are you ready to build a new reality?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907974915
Publisher:	Global Book Sales
Publication date:	03/16/2021
Series:	Do Books , #28
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	4.75(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Alan Moore is a designer and business innovator on a mission to help businesses discover their own unique beauty. He mentors teams and individuals, delivers leadership programs, and advises clients on regenerative business practices. He has collaborated with companies and institutions all over the world, including PayPal, Microsoft, Xero, and MIT. He has spoken at SXSW, the Hay Literary Festival and the DO Lectures; and is the bestselling author of Do Design: Why beauty is key to everything (Do Books, 2016).

Table of Contents

1 What does the world need? 8

2 Building foundations 14

3 Generous leadership 30

4 Your company culture 42

5 Products and services: 13 design Questions 50

6 Two case studies 74

7 'Re': a manifesto for the future 90

Appendix: 50 beautiful businesses 96

Resources 118

About the Author 121

Thanks 123

Index 124

Editorial Reviews

"This may be the most enlightened, concise, and extraordinary book on business ever written. It could be said that true beauty and business have never met. They do here. Business has long known how to steal the future. Alan Moore describes flawlessly how it can heal the future." – Paul Hawken, author & environmentalist

"Do Build offers hope, vision and practical ideas for creating a new model for businesses and indeed us all, post-Covid. What joy to see a philosophy that starts from beauty, and embraces regenerative principles and empathy at its very heart. Read this book, reshape your life and your business, and we all stand a chance of making a better future for everyone, including the planet." – Dame Fiona Reynolds, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and author of The Fight for Beauty

"Business can do good. Alan is passionate about the contribution that design can offer...in the journey towards kinder and more generous work. This is a beautiful book." – Professor Peter Childs FREng, Imperial College London

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