Obsolete, with the author, Chris Baker

How Change Brands are Changing the World

Episode 507 of the The Strand Review of Books podcast, hosted by Toby Chapman-Dawe, titled "Obsolete, with the author, Chris Baker" was published on October 29, 2024 and runs 9 minutes.

October 29, 2024 ·9m · The Strand Review of Books

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Summary

Welcome today to Chris Baker, author of Obsolete – How ‘change brands’ are changing the world. Chris is founder and CEO of Serious Tissues, to paraphrase crazily as a toilet-roll brand that plants trees, and is also co-founder of Change Please, a coffee brand that helps homeless people by training them as baristas. Obsolete – How ‘change brands’ are changing the world is a call for change as well as a predictor of change, and a thoroughly enjoyable read – published by Bloomsbury Business just five days ago in hardback and as an ebook, available from Amazon and of course from all good bookshops! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome today to Chris Baker, author of Obsolete – How ‘change brands’ are changing the world. Chris is founder and CEO of Serious Tissues, to paraphrase crazily as a toilet-roll brand that plants trees, and is also co-founder of Change Please, a coffee brand that helps homeless people by training them as baristas. Obsolete – How ‘change brands’ are changing the world is a call for change as well as a predictor of change, and a thoroughly enjoyable read – published by Bloomsbury Business just five days ago in hardback and as an ebook, available from Amazon and of course from all good bookshops!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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