Making Work Matter: How to Create Positive Change in Your Company and Meaning in Your Career

Nancy McGaw codifies lessons from the Aspen Institute First Movers Fellowship, an influential network and development program, which for 15 years has helped hundreds of corporate innovators create products, services, and management practices that are good for business and make a positive difference in the world. The stories shared in this book range from the creation of Levi's(R) sustainability-based Wellthread(TM) Collection, to the development of tools on LinkedIn which connect businesses with freelance service professionals, to the launch of an eco-friendly engine-cleaning company at Pratt & Whitney. They show how professionals in diverse industries-- technology, retail, finance, manufacturing, and more-- are imagining how their companies can help tackle complex social and environmental problems.

Combining inspiring stories with practical advice, McGaw reveals how you can start and sustain your own journey toward changing your company and your career.

This book will help you:
- Imagine opportunities for your company to create business and social value.
- Work on complex social and environmental challenges that matter deeply to you.
- Explore ways to bring innovative ideas to life in your company.
- Become an expert collaborator, so you can engage impactfully with colleagues to co-create solutions.
- Stay on the changemaking path-- even as challenges arise.

Business has enormous, untapped potential to create enterprise value and positive impact on the planet and society. Values-driven leaders at all levels of companies can help unleash this potential. If you are a manager or an individual contributor who wants to be part of this change, this book will give you courage and capacity to take the first step and then keep going.