We First
How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World
A social media expert with global experience with many of the world's biggest
brands - including Nike, Toyota and Motorola - Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new
practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty and
profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious
contributions from customer purchases.
These innovative private sector partnerships answer perhaps the most pressing
issue facing business and thought leaders today: how to practice capitalism in a way that
satisfies the need for both profit and a healthy, sustainable planet. Mainwaring provides
case studies from companies such as P&G, Walmart, Starbucks, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Toyota,
Nike, Whole Foods, Patagonia, and Nestlé as well as a bold plan for how corporations need
to rethink their strategies.
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
Transforming the Engine of Capitalism
Redefining Self-Interest from Me First to We First
The Future of Profit is Purpose
Creating Sustainable Capitalism in Five Ways
Instilling We First Values into Capitalism
Why the World Needs a Responsible Private Sector
How Brands Build Their Business and a Better World
How Consumers Build Responsible Brands and a Better World
How Contributory Consumption Creates Sustainable Social Change
The Global Brand Initiative: The Future of the Private Sector
Epilogue
Endnotes
256 pages, Hardcover