Climbing Mount Sustainability

摘要

This year marks an anniversary of sorts for Interface Inc., which produces about 40 percent of the world's commercial carpet tiles. Ten years ago, I challenged my company to a new way of thinking to embrace a new paradigm I believed would change the face of not only our industry but also the entire industrial world. The concept was sustainability, and as it has gained a foothold in the early 21st century I'm reminded of the emergence of the quality movement in the 1980s. Just as the quality movement revolutionized industry's thinking, the sustainability movement is having a profound effect on how business is run, on new thinking and ideas, and on innovation.