Giants of Social Investing: John Streur and Jack Robinson

By Bruce Piasecki

Like the case books by Sigmund Freud and Winston Churchill before him, Bruce Piasecki explores with explosive insights these exemplar lives. The work, while popular and easy to read, documents the historic significant in these money matters. The content explains how new world companies and new world investors are outdistancing the past. You see why firms like Apple, Tesla, NextEra, and Unilever are massively changed organizations along these ESG investment grade changes.

The book is one based on case-work, yet it is filled with a seasoned sense of principles on how the best corporate performers today are attracting new capital as the world changes. Piasecki has used the articulation of key principles to make a book that will prove timeless, and lasting, in a world of constantly reassessed stocks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098361914

Bruce Piasecki

Dr. Bruce Piasecki has served since 1981 as the founder and chair of AHC Group Inc., a general management consulting firm specializing in growth, energy, environment, and sustainability. Additionally, he has chaired the working group for reinventing the Environmental Protection Agency, served on the EPA’s Executive Advisory Council, and was appointed to the White House Council on Environmental Technology. He is also founder of a family-based community trust, Creative Force Foundation, which provides young writer awards.   Dr. Piasecki has authored over a dozen books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling Doing More with Less: A New Way to Wealth.

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Praise for

Conquering Tomorrow Today: Six Exemplar Lives

Readable and inspiring

This book is not only readable and inspiring, it has the energy one expects from Bruce Piasecki, an author with a sharp wit, deep learning, and a broad perspective on the world. He’s a writer I always read with pleasure.

—Jay Parini

Best-selling author of The Last Station

A force for healing

At a fractious moment, when the coronavirus global pandemic is decimating our economic and social life, Bruce Piasecki’s new book can be a force for healing and understanding. Piasecki writes in a compelling style. He offers clear-eyed portraits of successful and compassionate people, as we have seen before in Emerson, Freud, and Churchill. These profiles offer the immediacy of oral history, the hard-won knowledge of lived experience, and authentic voices that will draw readers in. You will end up admiring these people, and Piasecki. You can take to heart the wisdom they impart about the storms of today and tomorrow.

—Paul Grondahl

Journalist, author, and Director of

The New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany

Worthy for your tomorrow

Aristotle notes that role models are crucial for developing virtues. Bruce Piasecki’s compelling descriptions of Six that Make a Difference dramatize models of virtuous leadership for our age where mastering the complexity of everyday requires unprecedented collaborative skills. Read this book. It will prove worthy for your tomorrow.

—William M. Throop

Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Green Mountain College

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Other Books by Bruce Piasecki

2040: A Fable of the Near Future

America’s Future in Toxic Waste Management

Beyond Dumping

Corporate Environmental Strategy

Diplomacy and Longevity: The Lives of Frank Loy and Steve Percy

Doing More With Less

Doing More With Teams

Environmental Management and Business Strategy

In Search of Environmental Excellence

Missing Persons: A Memoir

New World Companies

The Quiet Genius of Eileen Fisher

The Social Intelligence of Linda Coady

Stray Prayers

The Surprising Solution

World, Inc.

Creative Force Fund

2021

Giants of Social Investing: John Streur and Jackson Robinson

by Bruce Piasecki

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Contents

Foreword by Chris Coulter, CEO, GlobeScan

Personality and Social Cohesion: Prologue by Bruce Piasecki

John Streur: What Money Enables

Like a Rock of Dignity: The Life of Jackson Robinson

Winslow’s Investment Philosophy

Focus on Green Solutions for a Sustainable Future

Afterword by Darryl Poole

Biographies Included Within This Chapbook Series

Except from Study of Eileen Fisher: What Is Enough?

Except from Study of Linda Coady: Why We Lie

The Conversation: About Bruce Piasecki

Appendix: Habits of Leadership

Foreword

by

Chris Coulter, CEO, GlobeScan

I am glad I got to see Bruce’s bio-sketch series on six exemplar lives before you in its early stages. I got to see it because he has written about people and leaders that have populated his exceptional workshop series for years; and he has now made it available to all through this published series.

I attended some of Bruce Piasecki’s workshops as he was developing these chapbooks, and I met through the years several of those featured in this collection of smart, small, sharp profiles. As we enter this third decade of the new millennium, it is clear that we are swimming in unchartered waters.

That is why Piasecki calls this, in his classic 2007 book, a swift and severe world. You see the sample book case study here on two giants in social investments. These capital market innovators help reshape how money moves to address issues of social inclusion, climate change challenges, and the need to make a more diverse workplace.

In this way, this collection on John Streur, the CEO of Calvert Investments and Research, a more than 20 billion dollar firm; and on Jackson Robinson, an early mover and main investor for six decades, addresses how money moves in this swift and severe world.

Let’s pause before Piasecki dives us into their lives to see how these lives shape our near future. Every facet of our life—from the economy to politics to the natural environment—has become more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Some call this complex the age of VUCA. Piasecki calls this an age of mistrust, mischief, and turmoil. This book examines how to get past this age.

Life has become more volatile, because interests are shifting across the world, accelerated by technology and new geopolitics; more uncertain, because of shifting societal expectations, mass inequality and the impacts of climate change; more complex, because of