To many companies treat people as they  treat other resouces - as commodities. But given leadership and example people can achieve great things for their companies.

If corporations are essentially people in law, why do they behave so differently from other citizens?

In response to the central questions posed on the forceforgood.com website, Philip Sadler CBE - the Senior Fellow of Tomorrow's Company - reviews the books that can provide detailed answers. Formerly philip was Chief Executive of Ashridge Business School for twenty years. He was also Senior Research Fellow for the recent inquiry - Tomorrow’s Global Company.

We wanted to find the people who had created a positive impact for society or the planet in the normal course of their business. We wanted them to tell their stories. These are the force for good pioneers.

Between 1999 and 2004, Statoil funded a training programme for judges in Venezuela to improve their understanding and application of human rights law.