Doing More: A Seminar & Retrospective
A week from tomorrow, on March 7, Bruce Piasecki presents Doing More With Less: The New Way to Wealth, and Doing More With Teams: The New Way to Winning at Northshire books in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY.
These books are cornerstones to Piasecki’s philosophies on sustainable business models that can be applied at the personal level and have been gaining increased attention lately because of their timeless advice – as timeless as the words of Ben Franklin, Piasecki’s hero – at a time when we really need to listen. Read the Press Release
Watch interviews & presentations on the topic:
Expert access radio, December 2013
Bay Sunday Interview, April 2012
Bloomberg Television, November 2011
Doing More With Less promotional book trailer
Membership has its privileges
AHC Group’s Affiliate Network has been growing for 27 years. Dr. Bruce Piasecki and his team of Senior Advisors offer unparalleled guidance to multinationals looking for an effective way to succeed in the marketplace – through a shared value approach and a team dynamic. With an affiliate network consisting of over 35 multinationals, AHC Group has enjoyed global relationships.
Corporate Affiliate Program benefits companies seeking to benchmark the business value from improved materials, energy, governance, financial risk, sustainability, and environmental performance. Through this executive benchmarking exchange, we assist you in making the business case before key stakeholders and the internal leadership councils
For more information, download the data sheet on affiliate member benefits or visit ahcgroup.com
Book Signing event and Presentation
Tickets on sale now! Northshire Bookstore Saratoga Springs Presents “A Seminar with Bruce Piasecki: Doing More with Less”. A new way to help your family, firm and friends earn and enjoy wealth and independence, as we compete in a world of 7 billion people!
Friday, March 7th, 5 – 7 pm, Northshire Bookstore, 422 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, $5.00 registration good towards purchase of the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller, Doing More with Less: The New Way to Wealth. Book-signing and reception to follow.
Join Dr. Piasecki as he presents what he refers to as “the arts of competitive frugality.” We all can learn to enjoy doing more with less. In the process, we will become like Ben Franklin all over again, frugal in a fun sense, inventive and diplomatic, rather than war-like and wasteful.
This argument builds from Bruce Piasecki’s thirty years of experience advising some of the largest firms in the world, from Toyota and Wal-Mart, to Warren Buffett’s Shaw Industries. But it also evolves from his love of books and from the literary tradition of self-determination, again as evident in the life and works of Ben Franklin.
The event will start at 5pm with a presentation followed by an interactive Q&A session. Bruce wants to learn as much from his audiences as he shares from his books. After the presentation the author will take part in a book-signing reception with light hors d’oeuvres served.
The first 40 to enroll in this event will receive form the author a FREE SIGNED copy of his international book on globalized firms, World Inc, now available in paperback as The Surprising Solution. Books will be available to pick up at the event.
What’s Good For the Environment is Good for Business
In a culture where business practices are made increasingly visible, and the ripple effect of corporate decisions are transparent nay, scrutinized, it is imperative that such decisions be made in response to social trends and concerns. For corporations, this means a Social Response Capitalism approach to creating a sustainable and strong business model that will translate into long-term success.
Social Response Capitalism is a transformational approach to thinking about business success – one in which companies restructure their operations to actively accommodate consumer demand by creating new products that will bridge the gap between traditional expectations of performance and price, and social impact. Currently, there is a direct correlation between public perception and revenue. As a society, we are far beyond the arcane industrialist mentality that ignores devastating environmental impacts and operates under supply and demand consumerism. We are learning that society adapts more to their own philosophical values than they do their material needs. Indeed, the new crowd sourcing and viral nature of support for innovations in environmentally friendly technology and production will propel corporations into the next century. So begins a new competition, and competition will drive the success (and defeat) of corporations.
As discussed in “The Surprising Solution,” society places pressure on a company to succeed in the innovation market and such success hinges on the company’s response to relevant environmental issues. Examples of these issues include: a drive to eliminate toxic chemicals in products of everyday use, a new corporate emphasis on the reusability and endurance of products, and some early examples of pure product innovation in advance response to pressure on clean air and climate change – all of which contribute to the 21st Century top social issue of building a healthy and sustainable environment that can withstand the trauma of mass production and the current drain on our natural resources.
There are number of different avenues that corporations can follow to manifest a Social Response Capitalism strategy that meets said social demands and that will turn innovation into action and ultimately, measurable results. Joint Innovation Projects (JIPs) are agreements in business-to-business innovation that includes intellectual, monetary, technology, and strategy sharing between corporate leaders who are working towards a common goal – usually to achieve social or environmental improvements. Through such sharing, the innovation that bridges the aforementioned gap between product perception and social impact becomes a reality.
Indeed, corporations are learning that a shared value approach to collaboration will have a larger global impact. The long-term global benefit here trumps the short-term publicity boost for businesses looking for recognition. Corporations recognize that collaboration is necessary for innovation, which is necessary for environmental sustainability. The full-circle effect from environmental impact to social impact to corporate sustainability proves that applying Social Response Capitalism to addressing societal and environmental demands for improvement will result in success.
The most successful corporations will be those who can answer the call to prioritize the health of the environment. Companies dedicated to retroactively addressing existing environmental damage will be setting a bar worldwide, and in doing so will be forsaking an industrialist attitude while embracing a team work approach. Even more successful however, will be those corporations who invest their resources in innovations and processes that are preventative. The responsive action is not simply to rehabilitate existing eco-systems that have been traumatized, but to design new methodologies in production that can mitigate the potential for environmental deterioration as a whole.
As experts in Social Response and Corporate Strategy since 1981, AHC Group has been applying the above philosophies to our consulting arrangements and affiliate workshops for decades. We help companies stay ahead of the curve to cultivate long-term business success while continuously meeting the global demands for improved environmental health. Our relationships have a ripple affect, and there is a shared value in what is learned. In fact, at an upcoming AHC Group Affiliate Workshop, Kevin Butt, Chief Environmental Office at Toyota, will be providing a leadership presentation: Competing On Sustainability, while Gordon Lambert, Executive Advisor Sustainability and Innovation, Suncor Energy is presenting on Innovation and Creating Social Value Through COSIA.
Bloomberg BNA article on Sustainability Training for the Near-Term Leader: Skills, Traits and Needs for the Near Future
AHC Group founder Bruce Piasecki & AHC Senior Associate Gerald Bresnick recently wrote an article now featured on Bloomberg BNA on Sustainability Training for the Near-Term Leader: Skills, Traits and Needs for the Near Future
Over 30 years of work with major U.S. and international companies has demonstrated that the consistency of business cycles extends well beyond the normal boom and bust of economic pressures and is seen in the way companies value their human capital. This trend extends to the approach companies take in training their management personnel. In this paper, we focus on the need for sustainability training in companies and organizations wishing to understand the swift global challenges which are reshaping the relationships of business, customers, government and society.
Download the complete PDF today!
Carbon Math
Limiting future climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Fifth and latest Climate Science Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, cumulative carbon & CO2 emissions to the atmosphere will largely determine how much warming actually takes place. To have a 66 % chance of limiting warming by 2100 to 2 degrees C, cumulative carbon and CO2 emissions must be limited to not more than 1 trillion (1000 billion) tons (by 2100)
AHC Senior Associate Ken Strassner has been presenting data on carbon emissions limitations in an effort to help cultivate a collaborative solution to the energy crisis. Below, from his Carbon Math presentation at our November stakeholder’s meeting come the following questions for discussion.
- What would the direct impacts be of carbon emissions limitations on a company’s reserves, key geographic and product markets and development priorities?
- What are the competitive implications for the business and its portfolio of assets likely to be relative to comparable and competitor companies?
- What should the company’s value-maximizing strategy be for managing its fossil fuel assets?
- What are the key messages and arguments that need to be developed for engaging with investors and other key stakeholders such as governments and NGOs?
To take part in our leadership workshops, or lend your expertise in discussions like the above, please visit our Affiliates page.
AHC Group: A collaborative approach to sustainable agricultural development & food security efforts
About two years ago, the AHC Group launched a special ongoing exchange on the sustainability and competitive challenges inherent in the Food/Water/Energy nexus.
The first meetings occurred in London with ASDA, and our Alliance partners Irbaris, where we facilitated the creation of a charter and four ongoing shared innovation routes including the major input, automation, banks and insurance entities. While there are many existing initiatives involving public organizations, there is still a great and unique role for companies to collaborate to identify and deliver actions. At this year’s AHC Leadership conference, we will be discussing, in concert with Irbaris, the collaborative approach to finding a solution for sub-saharan Africa food security. The project is focusing on subsaharan Africa given the importance of small holder farmer livelihoods, the scale of the challenge related to nutrition and access to food, and the production potential from existing natural resources, amongst other factors.
See the attached flyer for this year’s discussion – It’s not to late to be a part of this important discussion! Sign up at www.ahcgroup.com
Global Energy Demand & Development
By 2030 world energy demand will be 36% higher. With a steady increase in population and a correlative energy demand and resource availability, we have researched and forecasted energy consumption through 2040. Here, a look at global energy demand and development. Learn and understand our energy sources and likelihood for renewability in specific areas.
The outlook is bleak should we continue on our current path. But, there are solutions that can be reached through a collaborative approach that is part social response capitalism and part
A collaborative approach to solving the energy crisis requires a number of key players – each represented in the attached slide. Many of these players are corporate affiliates of the AHC Group and as such, present their solutions to such global issues at our bi-annual leadership conferences.
AHC Group: A collaborative approach to sustainable agricultural development & food security efforts
About two years ago, the AHC Group launched a special ongoing exchange on the sustainability and competitive challenges inherent in the Food/Water/Energy nexus.
The first meetings occurred in London with ASDA, and our Alliance partners Irbaris, where we facilitated the creation of a charter and four ongoing shared innovation routes including the major input, automation, banks and insurance entities. While there are many existing initiatives involving public organizations, there is still a great and unique role for companies to collaborate to identify and deliver actions. At this year’s AHC Leadership conference, we will be discussing, in concert with Irbaris, the collaborative approach to finding a solution for sub-saharan Africa food security. The project is focusing on subsaharan Africa given the importance of small holder farmer livelihoods, the scale of the challenge related to nutrition and access to food, and the production potential from existing natural resources, amongst other factors.
See the attached flyer for this year’s discussion – It’s not to late to be a part of this important discussion! Sign up at www.ahcgroup.com
AHC Group Affiliates Benefit from a Shared Value Perspective
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Join the growing number of multinationals who have benefitted from access to a premiere network of more than 3,300 global leaders who engage in provocative, innovative, and game-changing discussions that address the world’s relevant and emerging critical business and social issues. While assuring compliance with all antitrust guidelines the AHC Corporate Affiliate Program provides a safe, confidential environment where members can engage in candid, open discussion and share best practices with key industry leaders.
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Founder & CEO Bruce Piasecki, along with his advisors, advise with an unparalleled perspective that harnesses the philosophies behind social response capitalism, and a shared value approach to solving some of the toughest global issues that plague our economy, environment, and societal health.
Read more about Dr. Paisecki’s approach in his books World, Inc., Doing More With Less & Doing More With Teams.