Purpose Inspired: by Wayne Visser

This episode covers business responsibility in Guatemala and Mexico. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads  Chapter 17 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 17 is broken into the following sections:

- A New CSR Pyramid
- Heiligendamm Dialogue Process
- Sharing Resources in Times of Stress
- How CEMEX Empowers the Poor

This episode covers business responsibility in Canada. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads  Chapter 16 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 16 is broken into the following sections:

- Meditations on Business
- What is a Corporation
- Pathological Pursuit of Profits
- Social Responsibility is an Oxymoron
- Legal Nature of the Corporation

This episode covers business responsibility in India. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads  Chapter 15 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 15 is broken into the following sections:

- Colours in the Dust
- A Little World
- Greener is Not Always Better
- Delhi’s Uneven Development

This episode covers business responsibility in Singapore and Thailand. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads  Chapter 14 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 14 is broken into the following sections:

- An Unnecessary Extra?
- Sustainable Competitiveness
- Jack-out-the-Box
- Kit-Kat Catastrophe
- For Peat’s Sake
- Street Democracy
- Cabbages and Condoms

This episode covers business responsibility in Australia. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 13 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 13 is broken into the following sections:

- Launching ISO 26000
- Too Much Sun?
- An Experiment in Generosity
- The State of CSR
- A New Era in Climate Policy

This episode covers business responsibility in China. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 12 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 12 is broken into the following sections:

- Waking Dragon of the East
- A Dangerous Opportunity
- Two Years is a Long Time in China
- Phases of CSR Evolution
- Build Your Dreams

This episode describes what the author learned about business responsibility from Japan. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 11 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 11 is broken into the following sections:

- Discovering Kaizen
- Driving a Sustainable Vision
- Sustainability Accounting Pioneers
- Kyosei at Canon

This episode describes what the author learned about business responsibility from The Netherlands. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 10 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 10 is broken into the following sections:

- Stakeholder Politics
- Cycle Mania and Climate Defence
- Ethical Finance and Leading ‘Big’
- Cradle to Cradle Country

This episode describes what the author learned about business responsibility from Simon Zadek and Muhammad Yunus. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 9 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 9 is broken into the following sections:

- Responsible Competitiveness
- Collaborative Governance
- Worm's Eye-View
- Social Business Rising

This episode describes what the author learned about business responsibility from George Soros and Ervin Laslzo. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 5 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 8 is broken into the following sections:

- Capitalism in crisis
- Towards open societies
- Chaos looming
- Connection and consciousness