Wayne Visser

Purpose Inspired: by Wayne Visser

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Prof. Wayne Visser, PhD, shares his reflections on what it means to be purpose-inspired - for business, society and each one of us. The podcast explores how business can be a force for good in the world, and how individuals can make a positive difference. Covering topics like corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainable business and transformational change, each series is based on one of Dr Visser's books that synthesizes the emerging ideas, practices and lessons learned on the journey to becoming purpose-inspired.

Author

Wayne Visser

Category

Business

Podcast website

www.waynevisser.com

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

S3.E29: The Principle of Scalability - Part 3 18.06.2020

Part 3 of exploring how social and environmental solutions, products and services can be scaled to mainstream sustainability and transform CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 8 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 3 is broken into the following sections: - Government’s visible hand - A flotilla of little boats - The Long Tail of C...

S3.E28: The Principle of Scalability - Part 2 11.06.2020

Part 2 of exploring how social and environmental solutions, products and services can be scaled to mainstream sustainability and transform CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 8 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 2 is broken into the following sections: - The Limits of Ethical Consumerism - Fairtrade Coffee for You, Sir? - Choice...

S3.E27: The Principle of Scalability - Part 1 04.06.2020

Part 1 of exploring how social and environmental solutions, products and services can be scaled to mainstream sustainability and transform CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 8 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 1 is broken into the following sections: - The Story of Lee Scott and Wal-Mart

S3.E26: The Principle of Creativity - Part 5 28.05.2020

Part 5 of exploring how social and environmental innovation and entrepreneurship can help to achieve a transformation of CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 7 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 5 is broken into the following sections: - We are the champions - Mapping the innovation territory - The Googlemorph

S3.E25: The Principle of Creativity - Part 4 21.05.2020

Part 4 of exploring how social and environmental innovation and entrepreneurship can help to achieve a transformation of CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 7 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 4 is broken into the following sections:  - Africa's first free university  - EVOKEing a Responsibility Revolution

S3.E24: The Principle of Creativity - Part 3 14.05.2020

Part 3 of exploring how social and environmental innovation and entrepreneurship can help to achieve a transformation of CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 7 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 3 is broken into the following sections: - Making money mobile  - Self-sufficient electronics  - Entrepreneurs on a mission  - Kickstart...

S3.E23: The Principle of Creativity - Part 2 07.05.2020

Part 2 of exploring how social and environmental innovation and entrepreneurship can help to achieve a transformation of CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 7 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 2 is broken into the following sections: - Stagnation through standardisation  - When creativity is a bad thing  - Creative destruction

S3.E22: The Principle of Creativity - Part 1 30.04.2020

Exploring how social and environmental innovation and entrepreneurship can help to achieve a transformation of CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 7 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 1 is broken into the following sections:  - Case: Anurag Gupta and A Little World

S3.E21: The Age of Responsibility - Part 3 23.04.2020

Part 3 on an approach to business in society which is transformative - namely CSR 2.0 or Systemic CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 6 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 3 is broken into the following sections: - The principles of CSR 2.0  - Shifting from CSR 1.0 to CSR 2.0  - The DNA model of CSR 2.0

S3.E20: The Age of Responsibility - Part 2 16.04.2020

Part 2 on an approach to business in society which is transformative - namely CSR 2.0 or Systemic CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 6 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 2 is broken into the following sections: - Radical confessions  - Web 2.0: seeds of a revolution  - The birth of CSR 2.0

S3.E19: The Age of Responsibility - Part 1 09.04.2020

Part 1 on an approach to business in society which is transformative - namely CSR 2.0 or Systemic CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 6 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 1 is broken into the following sections:  - Case: Ray Anderson and Interface

S3.E18: The Age of Management - Part 5 02.04.2020

Part 5 on the growing use of management systems - including in the form of Strategic CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 5 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 5 is broken into the following sections: - The curse of peripheral CSR  - The curse of incremental CSR  - The curse of uneconomic CSR

S3.E17: The Age of Management - Part 4 27.03.2020

Part 4 on the growing use of management systems - including in the form of Strategic CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 5 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 4 is broken into the following sections:  - If the [sweatshop] shoe fits  - The rise and fall of corporate governance  - The rise of shareholder activism  - A cornucopia of...

S3.E16: The Age of Management - Part 3 20.03.2020

Part 3 on the growing use of management systems - including in the form of Strategic CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 5 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 3 is broken into the following sections:  - Towards a theory of responsibility  - The voluntary versus mandatory debate  - Challenging shareholder supremacy  - The quest to...

S3.E15: The Age of Management - Part 2 13.03.2020

Part 2 on the growing use of management systems - including in the form of Strategic CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 5 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 2 is broken into the following sections: - Business ethics through the ages - The industrial welfare movement - Cracks in the industrial edifice - Spaceship earth on a coll...

S3.E14: The Age of Management - Part 1 06.03.2020

Part 1 on the growing use of management systems - including in the form of Strategic CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 5 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 1 is broken into the following sections: - Case: Cadbury Brothers and Cadbury

S3.E13: The Age of Marketing - Part 3 28.02.2020

Part 3 on the rise of marketing as a force in business and society - including the dangers of Promotional CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 4 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 3 is broken into the following sections:  - Hanging greenwashing out to dry - The invisible hand of marketing - From misdirection to redirection

S3.E12: The Age of Marketing - Part 2 21.02.2020

Part 2 on the rise of marketing as a force in business and society - including the dangers of Promotional CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 4 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 2 is broken into the following sections: - Magic tricks and military tactics - Using smoke and mirrors - Sowing the seeds of doubt

S3.E11: The Age of Marketing - Part 1 14.02.2020

Part 1 on the rise of marketing as a force in business and society - including the dangers of Promotional CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 4 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 1 is broken into the following sections: - Case: John Browne and BP

S3.E10: The Age of Philanthropy - Part 3 07.02.2020

Part 3 on the history and nature philanthropy - including its perils and promise in the form of Charitable CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 3 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 3 is broken into the following sections: - Institutional philanthropy - The rise of foundations - The state of corporate giving - Strategic philanthro...

S3.E9: The Age of Philanthropy - Part 2 31.01.2020

Part 2 on the history and nature philanthropy - including its perils and promise in the form of Charitable CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 3 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 2 is broken into the following sections:  - For the love of humanity - Philanthropic traditions - American icons - Modern philanthropists - Philanthro...

S3.E8: The Age of Philanthropy - Part 1 24.01.2020

Part 1 on the history and nature philanthropy - including its perils and promise in the form of Charitable CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 3 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 1 is broken into the following sections: - Case: John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil - The wheels of wealth

S3.E7: The Age of Greed - Part 4 17.01.2020

Part 4 on how greed has become institutionalised in business, the economy and society - including in the form of Defensive CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser narrates Chapter 2 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 4 is broken into the following sections: - An inSANE economy? - The belly of the beast - Reforming the citadels of greed - Accompli...

S3.E6: The Age of Greed - Part 3 10.01.2020

Part 3 on how greed has become institutionalised in business, the economy and society - including in the form of Defensive CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 2 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 3 is broken into the following sections: - Financial market greed - A personal odyssey into greed - Discovering institutionalised gree...

S3.E5: The Age of Greed - Part 2 03.01.2020

Part 2 on how greed has become institutionalised in business, the economy and society - including in the form of Defensive CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 2 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 2 is broken into the following sections:  - An unhealthy appetite - Executive greed - Banking greed

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