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
“Deeply Consequential”
“Capitalism is most often these days rapacious, self-serving, and a generator of inequality. Yet there are leaders in our capitalist world who know better and do better. Bruce Piasecki has met a few of them. The six leaders profiled in these pages are deeply consequential, note here what Piasecki calls social response capitalism as a force at play in a tightly global world”
—Sandy Schram
Professor of Political Science, Hunter College
“Brilliantly portrayed”
“Effective leaders go about their business somewhat differently than their peers. That’s the magic in these case studies by Bruce Piasecki. Their differences, brilliantly portrayed, allow them to achieve results that others can only imagine. This is invigorating stuff. This book is rich with ‘fun-to-know’ stuff.”
—Tim Lindsey
President and CEO, Highlander Innovation
“Deeply surprising”
“Most business leaders that we know are larger-than-life characters. That is what’s so deeply surprising about this new book by Bruce Piasecki. What he explores is how modest, quietly spoken effective people can have as significant an impact as some of their gregarious counterparts. Many can learn from those that dare.”
—Richard Ellis
Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility,
Walgreens Boots Alliance
“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
Other Books by Bruce Piasecki
America’s Future in Toxic Waste Management
Beyond Dumping
Corporate Environmental Strategy
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
Stray Prayers
The Surprising Solution
World, Inc.
The Social Intelligence of Linda Coady
by Bruce Piasecki
First published in 2020 by
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