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    The Future Makers
    A Journey to People who are Changing the World - and What We Can Learn from Them

    Joanna Hafenmayer Stefańska and Wolfgang Hafenmayer
    With an essay by Muhammad Yunus, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

     

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    "Voices about the future from all corners of the world. A fascinating garland of optimism." Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

    * Global issues and solutions framed in 23 compelling personal stories

    * Material selected from 230 interviews conducted in 26 countries during the authors' one-year journey around the world

    * Aims at inspiring careers with meaning and shows how they are possible using the examples of the 23 entrepreneurs

    * Highly inspiring real-life stories with the potential for a life-changing impact on readers

    * A practical "how-to guide" with a step-by-step process and relevant models and questions

    * A guide and question-and-answer segment for readers: "Your Path to Positive Impact", based on patterns observed in the 230 interviews

    * Renowned authors from the business and social innovation/sustainability and impact investing areas

    * Already a viral phenomenon in Germany in the original German edition

    * Includes an essay by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus 

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    Are you looking for sense and meaning in your work? Would you like to be successful but expect more in the way of reward and fulfilment than just a pay cheque?
    We are pleased to announce the publication of The Future Makers: A Journey to People who are Changing the World - and What We Can Learn from Them. Order your copy direct from Greenleaf Publishing and receive 20% discount.

    List price: £16.95 | €20.00 | US$25.00
    Online price: £13.56 | €16.00 | US$20.00

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    The Future Makers

    A Journey to People who are Changing the World - and What We Can Learn from Them

    Joanna Hafenmayer Stefańska and Wolfgang Hafenmayer
    With an essay by Muhammad Yunus, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

    250 pp | 234 x 156 mm | paperback
    978-1-906093-85-3 | April 2013
    List price: £16.95 | €20.00 | US$25.00


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    Are you looking for sense and meaning in your work? Would you like to be successful but expect more in the way of reward and fulfilment than just a paycheque?

    The Future Makers offers 23 encouraging responses to these questions. It tells the diverse stories of people from around the world who have made a sustainable mark on the world through their careers: from an American financial market specialist to tree planters in Africa; from Japanese environmental experts to dancers in Argentina. The Future Makers are people who make the world a better, more beautiful and livable place for current and coming generations.

    The Hafenmayers present these inspiring stories in an accessible, entertaining and thoughtful way. But they also do far more. The book presents a toolkit on how you can forge a career that has a positive impact on the world. This step-by-step process has already had a life-changing impact on readers of the original German edition. It is packed with helpful suggestions for personal development and reorientation - for a work life that will make you happier and deeply satisfied.

     

     
    Contents

    Preface

    Part I: A world tour with consequences
    How the adventure of a world tour was born
    Marketing for Bill Gates
    Plane - office - hotel - office - plane
    Is something missing here?
    The trip begins in your mind
    Impact over profit
    The appeal of the will - and of social entrepreneurs
    Circling the globe with a cause
    What did the trip change? What is different today?
    Our positive impact through meeting new challenges


    Part II: The portraits
    Chapter 1. "I don't have the right professional background"
    Albina Ruiz Ríos - From jungle girl to refuse queen
    Safia Minney - Fair trade - haute-couture: making beautiful clothes and making sense
    Chris Eyre - A very different kind of venture capital
    Maria Emilia Correa - From critiquing business to taking responsibility
    Conclusion

    Chapter 2. "I'm too young or too old"
    Dr V - The McDonaldisation of eye surgery
    Vicky Colbert de Arboleda - Education not drugs
    Isaac Shongwe - A lost child of the slums and an African leader
    Photo impressions of our world tour
    Mia Hanak - Why mobile phones earn a place in museums
    Conclusion

    Chapter 3. "I am not financially secure"
    Mariana Galarza - Promoting health instead of curing illness
    Florian Krämer - Children deserve a better world
    Njogu Kahare - Live your own values
    Karen Tse - The journey is the destination
    Conclusion

    Chapter 4. "I am already successful with what I'm doing"
    David Bussau - The economy of "enough"
    Inés Sanguinetti - The wake-up call: uniting passions
    Ashok Khosla - The power of temptation
    Erin Keown Ganju - No signposts pointing to happiness
    Jordan Kassalow - Using your own potential
    Conclusion

    Chapter 5. "What will others think of me?"
    Roma Debabrata - The healing effects of a poisonous injection
    David Suzuki - Visions for grandchildren
    Amory Lovins - Let's build a world: thriving, verdant, just and secure!
    Charles Maisel - Treat adults as adults
    Thilo Bode - Change in the face of opposition
    Junko Edahiro - Fountain of hope in critical times
    Conclusion


    Part III: Your path to positive impact
    Criteria for positive impact
    Sustainable well-being as a measure
    Five paths to a job with meaning
    An idea becomes reality - options to help you realise a job with positive impact

    Dr Muhammad Yunus - Social business entrepreneurs are the solution

    Part IV: Appendices
    Appendix 1: Acknowledgements
    Appendix 2: List of interviewees
    Appendix 3: URL directory and literature
    Appendix 4: Photo credits
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