ISBN: 9781933392196 Year Added to Catalog: 2006 Book Format: Paperback Book Art: 60 b&w illustrations, appendices Number of Pages: 6 x 9, 328 pages Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Old ISBN: 1933392193 Release Date: May 15, 2006
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??John Abrams tells a wonderful story, full of ideas about our society. We all need the South Mountain Company??and its human lessons.?
--Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner
"John Abrams is a philosopher disguised as a businessman. His chapter challenging the gospel of growth ought to be read by every business person struggling to keep up with a crushing workload, and wondering why we're all so determined to grow bigger faster when it's killing us (and the planet). John shows how we can step off the treadmill and back into life."
--Marjorie Kelly, Business Ethics Magazine
"John Abrams is not only one of my favorite builders on the planet, he??s also one of my favorite thinkers. In this age of mergers and acquisitions, where bigger is always better and money is the only bottom line, The Company We Keep offers hope for those of us who value craft, compassion, and community."
--Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding
"John Abrams gives entrepreneurs what they really need: proof that sustainable business works"
--Ben Cohen, Co-Founder, Ben&Jerry's Ice Cream; President, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities.
"The Company We Keep is a great read with a great message that should have relevance to virtually any company that cares about more than making money."
--Alex Wilson, Executive Editor of Environmental Building News
"John Abrams takes readers on a journey that is as rich, fulfilling and purposeful as the company that he has lovingly helped to shape and steward over the last two decades. The Company We Keep is a soulful and refreshing reminder that businesses are no different from families, communities or for that matter any other human organization - without mission or purpose, they can be lifeless, irrelevant and even destructive, but infused with intention, they can sow the seeds for a hopeful future. Abrams' employee owned South Mountain Company serves as an example that entrepreneurs are only limited by our imaginations when it comes to prioritizing care, kindness and compassion for employees, community and the environment."
--Gary Hirshberg, President and CE-YO, Stonyfield Farm, Inc.
I am using your book as a required text in my course on social entrepreneurship at Berkeley this semester. I recently finished reading it and really love what you wrote. I won't go into all my thoughts in this email but suffice it to say I think you have built a model which is exemplary and others should emulate if we want to make our lives, families, communities, nations, and the world a more meaningful, prosperous, healthy, and enjoyable place. Looking forward to sharing more thoughts and ideas over a brew or coffee next time you are out this way.
--Paul Frankel, Lecturer, Haas, Center for Responsible Business, UC Berkeley
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