About the Book: Transforming Systems
By the turn of the millennium, the dominant idea was that not only should the
business of business be only business, but countries, governments and civil
society organizations should also be run on principles of business. Soon, the
realization that, while economies had been growing, systemic problems of social
inequality and environmental unsustainability were becoming intolerable, led to
the Sustainable Development Goals, which all countries signed up to achieve. A
new toolkit is required to attain these goals that go beyond the precepts of
good business management and prevalent best practices in government as well as
civil society organizations. In Transforming Systems,