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Book Description

An optimistic call to action for business leaders and decision makers everywhere

In his second book ‘the face of British Business' Lord Digby Jones shows us why profit isn't a dirty word—it's what you do with it that counts. Society is at a crossroads, and good business lays the foundation for a successful future; but are we brave enough to build it? Fixing Business focuses on why we must be.

Fixing the world requires a vibrant and successful, profit-yielding, tax-delivering, job-creating business sector. This book describes how that sector is built, and how the good of business means the good of all.

  • Learn why business must invest more—and better—in physical and human infrastructure
  • Discover the critical importance of social inclusion in the future of business
  • Understand why fixing education and the environment are at the top of the priority list
  • Engage with every aspect of society to create the wealth that holds the social fabric together

From the smallest shop around the corner to the largest multinational corporation, the variable upon which every facet of business success rests is people. Workers, investors, customers, creditors—all ensure that wealth is created, and at the end of the day, they are what business is about. Fixing Business shows us how to harness their power to change the world.

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1: Something is Wrong – And It's Everybody's Business
    1. What's the Problem?
    2. What Has Business Ever Done for us?
    3. Harnessing a Powerful Force for Good
    4. Getting to Work: the Problems That Need Fixing
  2. Chapter 2: Where the Battle is Being Lost: Fixing the Reputation of Business
    1. What Is Wrong with the Reputation of Business?
    2. What is the Answer?
    3. Listen and Understand: Communicate Effectively
  3. Chapter 3: Achieving Socially Inclusive Wealth Creation
    1. Time to Return to Socially Inclusive Wealth Creation
    2. The Pearson Story
    3. Achieving Socially Inclusive Wealth Creation
  4. Chapter 4: Harnessing the Power of Education, Training and Skills
    1. Why is Education, Training and Skills Such a Vital Business Issue?
    2. The Future: a Changing Jobs' Market
    3. Vision of the Future #1: More and Better Apprenticeships
    4. Vision of the Future #2: Academies
    5. Vision of the Future #3: Lifelong Learning That Has Relevance
  5. Chapter 5: Protecting the Environment: An Essential Priority
    1. Save the Planet! … but the Planet Will Be Fine!
  6. Chapter 6: The Boardroom: Executive Pay and the Gulf between Big and Small Business
    1. So Why Don't We Like Them?
    2. Shareholder Involvement
    3. Reform
  7. Chapter 7: Dealing with a Post-Brexit World
    1. So What Did They Really Want?
    2. The UK Should Be Leaving the European Union, the Single Market and the Customs Union as Quickly as Possible
  8. Chapter 8: What's Next?
    1. A Trump Presidency: King Canute or Saviour?
    2. Next Steps
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. About the Author
  11. Index
  12. EULA
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