http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/manufacturing-china The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/128/the-prophet-ceo.html <!--paging_filter--><p> <strong>Jeff Swartz likes to tell this</strong> story. It is a somewhat strange anecdote, with an unexpected moral -- but Swartz is nothing if not unexpected. He is sitting in his New Hampshire office, wearing jeans and a baseball cap, and talking about the summer he spent as an 11-year-old sweeping floors in his father's factory. &quot;My dad said he'd forgotten something in the shipping room, so I took off at a run,&quot; recalls Swartz, who today heads the company, shoemaker <span style="border-bottom: green 1px dotted">Timberland</span>.<p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/128/the-prophet-ceo.html">read more</a></p> manufacturing in China Leadership corporate social responsibility Personal Brands Timberland Timberland boots Jeff Swartz environmentally friendly companies sustainable value Environmental Activism Leadership Careers Ethonomics Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:30:45 -0400 Mark Borden and Anya Kamenetz 958580 at http://www.fastcompany.com