Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Including 10 More Years of Business as Usual

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If, on the other hand, you're an environmentalist who believes that - regardless of the principles upon which the system is built - we just can't keep on living in such a system, well, maybe not so much. Unlike most recruiters,” Dean explained in an article on LinkedIn, “we read bottom up instead of top down . In the original version, Chouinard loosely described Patagonia’s approach toward employees and benefits, with limited detail to investment and cost. In this book there are many very dated photographs and unfortunately they are more interesting than the narrative.

There became a point when Yvon accepted both his reality and his fate—he was a “businessperson,” and he’d most likely be one for a long time. Fifty-eight percent of Patagonia’s Ventura employees are women, many holding high-level management positions — the employer believes that the centers help them retain these skilled employees by making it easier for women to progress in their careers.Though I highly recommend reading the entire book, I wanted to share the passages I found especially profound. Chouinard believes work must be fun, and that the company values employees who live rich and rounded lives. Activists have an infectious passion about the issues they support, whether they are mothers fighting to clean up toxic landfills that are killing their children or farmers trying to hold on to their fourth-generation family business threatened by urban sprawl. So when I heard Yvon was releasing a revised version of Let My People Go Surfing, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on his latest musings. Ten years since its 2006 release, our world has experienced the largest economic recession since the Great Depression, seen a staggering increase in acute environmental issues and uncovered thousands of cases of inhumane working conditions.

Environmental stewardship was/is at the forefront of Patagonia’s philosophy on production and strategy. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. Its management philosophy is that people work better in smaller groups and that good leaders instigate change.

It exists to put into action those recommendations that all the doomsday books on the health of our home planet say we must do immediately to avoid the certain destruction of nature and collapse of our civilisation. Then, after several trips to the San Joaquin Valley, where we could smell the selenium ponds and see the lunar landscape of cotton fields, we asked a critical questions: How could we continue to make products that laid waste to the Earth in this way? With all that has happened, it seems natural that Patagonia’s moral leader would have something to say. At the same time, because Patagonia is, for a for-profit business, very environmentally responsible and family-oriented, I really wanted to like this book. Mothers receive 16 weeks of fully paid leave and four weeks of unpaid leave, and fathers can tap into 12 weeks of paternity leave.