Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Reviews for Plan for the Planet -- 1 Why We Need a Plan forthe Planet -- The Purpose of This Book -- PART I: Understanding Our Current Situation -- From Flint Chip to Silicon Chip -- However, There is a Problem … -- The Perfect Storm? -- Crisis Can Also Create Opportunity -- A Word on Complacency -- Easter Island Case Study -- Why Take a Business Management Approach? -- A Word on 'ldealism' -- PART II: Understanding the Key Global Challenges -- Understanding the Issues of the Major Challenges Faced by the Human Race -- Executive Briefs -- 2 Executive Brief No. 1: Population Growth -- The Current Situation -- Opportunities and Best Practice -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- 3 Executive Brief No. 2: Climate Change -- The Current Situation -- Opportunities and Best Practice -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- 4 Executive Brief No. 3: Energy Supplies -- The Current Situation -- Opportunities and Best Practice -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- 5 Executive Brief No. 4: Water and Food Supplies -- The Current Situation - Water Supplies -- Solutions and Best Practice: Water Supplies -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- The Current Situation - Food Supplies -- Solutions and Best Practice - Food Supplies: The Role of Government, Business and People -- 6 Executive Brief No. 5: Planet Sustainability and Biodiversity -- The Current Situation -- Opportunites and Best Practice -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- 7 Executive Brief No. 6: Extreme Poverty -- The Current Situation -- Solutions and Best Practice -- Opportunities -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- 8 Executive Brief No. 7: Global Health -- The Current Situation.

Opportunities and Best Practice -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- 9 Executive Brief No. 8: Universal Education -- The Current Situation -- Opportunities and Best Practice -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- 10 Executive Brief No. 9: Conflict and Peace -- The Current Situation -- Opportunities and Best Practice -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- 11 Executive Brief No. 10: Financing a Sustainable World -- The Current Situation -- Solutions and Best Practice -- The Role of Government, Business and People -- How Much Will it Cost to Address These Strategies? -- Putting the Finances of Sustainability in Perspective -- 12 Executive Brief No. 11: The Challenge of Interconnectivy - The Perfect Storm or the Perfect Opportunity? -- The Problem of Interconnectivity -- The Perfect Storm? -- The Perfect Opportunity? -- The Key Next Steps: Developing a Plan for the Planet -- PART III: Developing a Plan for the Planet -- 13 Building a Global Vision for Planet Earth -- Why a Vision for Planet Earth? -- Building a Vision for Our Plan for the Planet -- Developing a '2030 Mission' -- 14 Global Objectives and Strategies: Addressing Our Key Global Challenges -- Involvement of the Global Community -- Objectives, Strategies and Action Plan Summary -- Business Plan Summary -- 15 Taking Responsibility: Translating Understanding into Action -- Organisational and Personal Action Planning: What, When, and How? -- Developing Your Plan for the Planet (Government, Business or Personal) -- PART IV: Managing a Plan for the Planet -- 16 Ten Global Management Best Practices -- 1. Effective Business Planning -- 2. A Customer-Driven Organisation -- 3. Sensitivity to the Outside Environment -- 4. Thinking Global/Acting Local - Global Partnerships andTeaming -- 5. Understanding Competition -- 6. Focus Using the 80:20 Rule.

7. Productivity and Continuous Improvement -- 8. Mastery of Information Technology -- 9. Shared Values -- 10. Effective Change Management -- 17 Global Management Best Practices: Applications to Managing a Plan for the Planet -- Application of Global Management Best Practices to Public Sector Management -- Achieving Best Practice -- Application of the Best Practice Global Management to International Organisations -- 18 Global Management Best Practices: A Health Check -- Application of the Ten Best Practice Global Management Principles -- Building a Sustainable World - An Effective Manager's Health Check -- A. Organisation Structure and Roles -- B. Organisation Dynamics -- C. Management Information -- D. Managing Change -- E. Managing Innovation -- F. Managing Motivation: Leadership Responsibility andEffective Teaming -- Best Practice Global Management -- PART V: Delivering a Plan for the Planet -- 19 Leveraging the Triangle of Change -- 20 Leveraging International Organisations and Government -- Achieving Best Practice Global Management in International Organisations -- Opportunities for Increasing Management Effectiveness -- National Government -- 21 Leveraging the Business Contribution -- Opportunities for State Owned Enterprises -- The Business Contribution in Context -- Opportunities for Multinational Companies -- Social Contribution: Risks and Benefits -- Corporate Social Responsibility Audit -- The Opportunity of the New Philanthropy -- Opportunities Presented by the Social Challenges of Supply Chain Management -- Conflict Management: Does Business Help or Hinder? -- Corruption: A Global Challenge for Business -- Investing to Fight the Ten Global Challenges -- Expanding Partnerships -- Business in the 21st Century: Corporate Global Citizens -- 22 Leveraging the Power of the People -- Building Bridges: Working Together.

23 Embracing the New Green Revolution -- 24 Embracing the Spiritual Imperative -- Faith Driven Power -- Buddhism -- Christianity -- Hinduism -- Islam -- The Practical Power To Influence Opinion -- Working Together -- 25 Delivering Our Plan for the Planet -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Millennium Development Goals -- Appendix 2: Useful Websites -- Bibliography -- Index.