business leaders need a fundamental rethink on how business is going to work going forward. This implies a much deeper appreciation of the many aspects of life that were once simply discarded or ignored when it came to ‘doing business’. With the many flaws of the now collapsed – but still not really replaced – previous system of what some have called economic Darwinism (let the fittest survive) exposed as being fatally inadequate, the question is: what next? This book strives to begin answering that question, setting business within a much wider, deeper context. This is about making a profit with a purpose rather than profit for profit’s sake. Anyone stuck in the ‘old order’ will simply not get it; the rest of us are deeply engaged in working out the new economic system by which we’ll be living going into the future. Time, it would seem, to decide whether you want to lie down with the dinosaurs or stand up with those who’ll lead us into a new, more sustainable and more balanced way of doing business.
Dealonomics Kim Meredith
Zebra Press • 9781 7702 2557 2
Kim Meredith comes with a CV that’s hard to argue against. She believes that while, for the great majority of people, the last five years have seen a steady decline in average household incomes and relative wealth, with vast numbers of people in the world’s middle classes becoming rapidly poorer, and poor becoming poorer yet, that there’s a way out. You need to learn to negotiate higher incomes and salaries, get a better contract, increase or improve orders. This is her answer to the world’s current economic crisis. She seems utterly to have missed the point. While her techniques are no doubt of some use and may well help any one of us from time to time, she simply fails to address the underlying issues in any meaningful way. Read it and use what she says, but don’t expect this book to pave the way for any new order worthy of that name.
The Assault on the Rand
Zebra Press • 978 1 7702 2554 1
Barry Sergeant
The very short version of a review of this book goes like this: back in 2001 there was collusion between some major corporates and at least one major global bank to destroy the rand’s value, for their own purposes. Then head of the SA Chamber of Business, Kevin Wakeford, blew the whistle and President Mbeki established a commission of inquiry as to what was going on. That stopped that attack on the rand. But the attack is back on – the commission never finished its work and corporates and others in the banking sector still have dirty dealings to cover up and some nasty tricks up their sleeves. This book reveals all – not only what happened a dozen years ago, but much of what is taking place now. Read this one and see how it changes your attitude towards bankers and their fellow travellers when it comes to milking us all dry.
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