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Foreword (Klaus Schwab)Introduction.PART I New Times - New Needs.CHAPTER 1 Outer globalization.A business world of disorder - the new businessparadigm.The great globalization race - how nationscompete.Five planets wanted - environmental imbalancesand growth principle.More wealth and more inequality - economicimbalances and growth principle.The silent killers - social imbalances andgrowth principle.CHAPTER 2 Inner globalization.Generation MeWe - conscious labourmarkets.The Global Brain - hybrid markets.Collaborative problem solvers - collectiveintelligence markets.Civil power brokers - activism markets.Conscious buycotters - ethical consumptionmarkets.PART II New Needs - New Solutions.CHAPTER 3 The routes to sustainable business success.The new faces of capitalism - blurring sectorborders and the fourth sector.The value of social entrepreneurship - threedimensions of the new business paradigm.Responsible business 2.0 - from CSR to CSI andthe four enabling Cs.A business force for good - the power ofpartnerships and converging fields.CHAPTER 4 Visions for the future.An evolutionary revolution - in the midst of aparadigm shift.Utopias and pessimism - about hope andfear.Everyone has a role to play - and the power ofYOU!References.Further reading.Acknowledgements.About the author.Index.