Cover -- More Praise for The Collaboration Economy -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why This Book, and Why Now? -- Why You Should Read This Book -- The Collaboration Economy's Structure -- Call to Action -- Part One: Welcome to the Collaboration Economy -- 1: The Collaboration Economy: Prosperity and Social Dimensions Aligned -- Welcome to the Collaboration Economy -- Transitioning from the Waste Economy to a Better Economic System -- Can the Kind of Collaboration We're Exploring Truly Make a Positive Impact on Our Global Economy? -- How Can Growth Accelerate the Journey to Sustainable Development? -- The Collaboration Economy Will Kick-Start Economic Development -- How the Collaboration Economy Is Coming to Life -- Orchestrators as Landmark Leaders -- Intertwined Crises -- Lack of Global Public Sector Leadership -- Interest of the Commons Now in the Common Interest -- The Collaboration Economy Framework -- Adopt a Collaboration Mind-Set -- Focus on What Matters Most -- Develop and Nurture Relationships -- Organize Your Coalition -- Commit to Precise Coalition Goals -- Execute Through Your Coalition -- Renew Your Coalition's Plans -- What Will the Collaboration Economy Look Like? -- Part Two: Bringing the Collaboration Economy to Life and Scale -- 2: Renewing the Global Energy Sector -- The Global Energy Debate's Three Great Tensions -- Tension One: Economic Versus External Costs -- Tension Two: Limited Funding Availability Versus Needed Infrastructure Upgrades -- Tension Three: Waiting for Public Sector Leadership Versus Acting Now -- Power Sources -- Coal -- Natural Gas -- Nuclear -- Water -- Nonhydro Renewable Sources of Energy -- Energy Infrastructure -- GE as Orchestrator of a Global Energy System Solution -- Jeff Immelt, USCAP, and the Birth of Ecomagination.

GE and the Emerging Ecosystem to Create a Lasting Energy Solution -- Accelerating Collaborative Change Initiatives -- Call to Action -- 3: Turning Packaging Materials into Capital -- The Current U.S. Recycling System Is Not Sufficient -- Bottle Bills and Packaging Recycling-Why Do We Need a New Solution? -- Collaboration and the Elements Needed to Turn Waste into Resource -- Consumer Willingness to Adapt to a New System -- Access and Trust -- Increased Scope in Packaging Material Recycling -- Extended Producer Responsibility -- EPR Adoption -- Leadership Needed: Nestlé Waters North America Builds an EPR Coalition -- Lessons NWNA Has Learned Along the Way -- Shield Ideas from Poorly Informed Arrows -- Be Transparent to Develop Trust Among Skeptical Competitors -- Pilot Tests Are Good Investments -- Put Your Money on the Line -- Call to Action -- 4: Renewing the Global Food System -- Our Stressed Global Food System -- Achieving Global Food Security -- Unilever Changes Its Business Model -- The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan Changes the Game -- Collaboration: The Key Ingredient -- What Is "Sustainable Sourcing"? -- Incentives for Farmers -- Training -- Tools and Resources -- Example of the USLP in Action -- Suppliers' Response -- Deciding in Whom to Invest -- Internal Unilever Changes -- Long-Term Focus -- Organizational Changes -- Procurement- and Collaboration-Enabling Software -- Challenges to Unilever's Approach -- Call to Action -- 5: Responsibility as Profitability: Toward Responsible Shipbreaking -- Overview of the Maritime Shipping Industry -- The Current Model of Ship Dismantling -- Toward a New and Responsible Method of Ship Recycling -- Bringing the Responsible Ship Recycling System to Life -- Grieg Green: Responsible Shipbreaking as Competitive Strategy -- Challenges -- Call to Action -- 6: Renewing Consumerism.

Gatekeepers, Prosperity, and Sustainable Development -- The Lease Society -- Inverting the Economic Rationale -- Inspirations for the Lease Society -- Private Sector Concerns About the Lease Society -- Call to Action -- 7: Connecting the Water Drops -- Our Current Water System -- What Is Stressing Water? -- Population Growth -- Urbanization -- Economic Development -- Climate Change -- Policy and Investment -- Toward a Solution That De-Stresses Water -- Smart and Integrated Water Regulation -- Education to Inspire a Newfound Respect for Water and Water Services -- Altering Our Relationship with Water -- Engaging the Private, Public, and Social Sectors in Local and Global Stewardship -- Coca-Cola: Water Stewardship Is Business Strategy -- Connecting Water and Competitive Strategy -- Coca-Cola's Water Stewardship Goals -- Earning Three Water Licenses -- Cross-Sector Collaboration -- Partnerships Are Essential -- Thinking and Acting "Glocally" -- Coca-Cola: Innovation and Ambidexterity as Means of Fortifying the Global Water System -- Replicable Lessons Learned and Capabilities Developed -- Codiscover to Develop Broad and Valuable Support -- Understand That Your Organization Can Only Influence, Not Control, Its Destiny -- Employ Partnership Best Practices -- Stay the Course During Pilot Tests -- Focus on Employee Skills Development -- Nurture Cross-Functional Collaboration -- Integrate Global Partnerships to Extend Your Core Capabilities -- Challenges to Coca-Cola's Water De-Stressing Efforts -- Call to Action -- Part Three: Putting It All Together to Move Forward -- 8: Becoming a Collaborative Leader -- The Essential Skills and Traits of Leaders Operating in the Collaboration Economy -- Seeing Your Leadership Position as a Privilege, Not a Right -- Nurturing an Unwavering Commitment to a True Purpose.

Serving as Activist-In-Chief for Your Constituents -- Operating in a Time Frame Longer Than Tenure -- Believing in and Relying on Partnerships -- Acting with Integrity, Guided by an Ethical Compass -- Having an Iron Stomach . . . and Patience -- Feeding Constructive Discontent -- Call to Action -- 9: Winning in the Collaboration Economy -- Corporate Strategy -- Employ the Buried Assumptions Exercise -- Deploy Your Sustainability Department as an Innovation Department -- Reconsider the Costs and Benefits of "Co-opetition" -- Know When to Collaborate and When to Compete -- See "Supplier," Think "Partner" -- Engage Stakeholders in Your Decision-Making Processes -- Corporate Culture -- View Employees as Society's Ambassadors -- Move Beyond the Mentality of Zero-Sum Competition -- Accept That You Can Only Influence Your Own Destiny -- Build Communities That Engage People Rather Than Hierarchies That Control Them -- Adopt Systems Thinking as a Guide to Solving Problems -- Adopt an Influence-and-Persuade Mind-Set -- Alterations to Operations -- Roll Up Your Sleeves-There Are a Lot of Stakeholders to Reach -- View and Manage Your External Costs as Actual Expenses -- View the Elimination of Externalities as an Investment -- Hire Specialized Heads of Externality Management and Make Their Roles Matter -- Embrace a Longer-Term Time Frame -- Call to Action -- 10: Where Do We Go from Here? -- One U.S. Regulatory Change to Kick-Start Our Prosperity Engine -- The Collaboration Economy Can Enable Solutions to Other Vexing Issues -- Help Wanted: Further Collaboration Economy Thinking Is Needed -- Metrics -- New Organizational Structures -- Endnotes -- About the Author -- Index.