Radical Business

Businesses are more than products and profits. The best ones are a vital part of our social lives, well-being, and what lies in and beyond our happiness. With people worldwide seeking companies that do well by doing good, Radical Business is the new MBA, showing you what business in the 21^st century must do to improve the world.

-- Jenn Lim, Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Humanity Officer at Delivering Happiness; WSJ Best Selling Author of ‘Beyond Happiness’

You need to read this book. It shows how to move a firm to be a force for good with captivating stories and insights that pop. Look, for example, for the five ambassadors you need to create a culture with energy and influence.

-- David Aaker Vice-Chair, Prophet Author of 'Aaker on Branding' & Jennifer Aaker The General Atlantic Professor and Coulter Family Faculty Fellow Stanford Graduate School of Business Co-Author of 'Humor, Seriously'

If you want your company to survive the next few years, let alone thrive, then read Radical Business, John Davis’s new book. It will show what you need to do to make your business a force-for-good in a world seeking solutions to our toughest challenges, from the climate crisis, to social and economic injustice, to pandemics.

-- Zach Nelson, Board Member of Freshworks, Former CEO of NetSuite

How can organizations create meaningful, valuable transformations at a systematic level? John Davis introduces his readers to a new definition of being successful; to a world of endless ingenuity, motivated by values and innovation. More than that, his empowering step-by-step guide makes this world more than achievable. A must-read for those who aspire to lead with intelligence and with conscience.

-- Sanyin Siang, Duke University professor Author of The Launch Book, and Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach

The world faces many challenges. John, through the use of clear rules and inspired examples, demonstrates how companies can navigate these problems and meet them head on. Even the most amorphous challenges can be addressed iteratively resulting in concrete change; laying the foundations of a future society we wish to live in. This is a timely and well thought piece necessary in our rapidly changing reality.

-- William Pazos, Founder and Managing Partner AirCarbon Exchange

Read John Davis’s new book, Radical Business. Why? Because the challenges in today’s world are compelling leaders and their companies to determine how they will contribute. Assuming that ‘business-as-usual’ will work is wrong because data shows that people worldwide expect companies to be more positively engaged with society, and that means they must transform. The question is how. John’s new book shows what companies and leaders must do to become a collective ‘force-for-good’ in a world craving solutions.

-- Sharmla Chetty, CEO, Duke Corporate Education

This is an important, book - a tour de force for good. Radical Business is a provocative and inspiring guide to leadership in the 21st century. A time in which the best companies must step up to their responsibility as stewards of social change or risk obsoletion. Yet, at this time of brutal uncertainty, the path to stakeholder value creation is complex and risky. With insights from a career in the front row of leadership, Davis charts a course for those leaders wanting to explore and embrace the challenges facing them. He inspires with examples of leaders who have energised their organisations to live up to their full potential whilst breaking down the formidable task ahead into an achievable framework of ideas, questions and actions to pursue. This book may be the wake up call that prompts you to action, it may be part of your organisation’s risk exploration process or your guide to translating stakeholder insights into transformative solutions. Being a force for good may seem like radical business now but tomorrow, it will simply be business.

-- Tremaine du Preez, PhD Decision Scientist and author of Decide - The Science and Art of Choosing Wisely and Raising Thinkers

John Davis delivers an inspired call to action showing us how business can succeed while also being a force for good. Through his rich use of metaphor and examples from around the world, readers will feel empowered to do the same within their organization. John is a welcomed and needed optimistic voice for the 2020s.

-- Michael Netzley, Ph.D. CEO, Extend My Runway (Singapore)

At this point in time, organizations are key activation engines for a viable, livable, desirable future. For this to be realized, requires a new kind of leadership, that draws on ‘softer’ capabilities-courage, empathy, and dare I say, love. John Davis generously charts a path for this future. One that’s grounded, no nonsense and full of actionable wisdom. The cost is high stakes: you may have to change your mindset and skill up. You may have to question assumptions. It may be uncomfortable or scary. However, failure to change are far higher stakes that can take us all down. This is our moment. Read this book if you lead or seek to lead.

-- Renee Lertzman, PhD Climate psychologist and Founder, Project InsideOut

As the world appears to continue to spin out of control, Davis’ new book offers hope. Taking a values-based approach, the book presents a practical framework for leaders to reassess their organization’s contribution to the world, guiding conversations to bring about meaningful, measurable, and substantial change for humanity’s biggest problem - ourselves - whilst mobilising employee engagement, bottom-line impact, and societal good.

-- Professor Dr Andrew Sharman, Managing Partner, RMS Switzerland & Chairman of One Percent Safer

With today's social unrest, unknown economic impacts and health crisis, it is a challenge for organizations to create societal value. To help companies navigate through this ever changing environment, John Davis wrote an excellent book, providing Boards & Executive teams with a guide on how to future proof their business, and realize the company’s dream. The book contains practical examples and inspiring insights from various thought leaders . It is empowering. A must read for those companies who do not just want to thrive in today’s and future world, but want to drive sustainable change and make an impact.

-- Anouk De Blieck Board Advisor, Non-Executive Director Elliot Scott HR, Senior Industry Advisor WhitewaterTX

Radical Business courageously and justly directs companies to be fit for purpose in an age when we are learning that our long-held assumptions and criteria for success are no longer adequate.

-- Adam Kingl, Adjunct Faculty, UCL School of Management and Hult International Business School Author of 'Next Generation Leadership: How to Ensure Young Talent Will Thrive with Your Organizat