The Game Changer, A.G. Lafley & R. Charan

This is how the book benefits you. Irrespective of what you manage, a multi-national construction company or a neighbourhood dry-cleaner, you can improve your business if you apply the lessons that fill the book. Success is very similar across a huge swathe of businesses - it involves creating new customers for your offering or increasing the spend of your current ones, and creating new offerings that will drive growth and profit. And the question still remains - how do you do it?

Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas Friedman

Friedman the three time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times journalist has done it again! His book, The World is Flat was the number 1 international best seller and I think this one will do the same!

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The Game Changer, A.G. Lafley & R. Charan

This is how the book benefits you. Irrespective of what you manage, a multi-national construction company or a neighbourhood dry-cleaner, you can improve your business if you apply the lessons that fill the book. Success is very similar across a huge swathe of businesses - it involves creating new customers for your offering or increasing the spend of your current ones, and creating new offerings that will drive growth and profit. And the question still remains - how do you do it?

By the end of the book you will know how Proctor & Gamble, owner of many of the world's leading consumer brands tripled profits over the last seven years, hugely improved organic revenue growth, cash flow and operating margins and significantly boosted dividends.  And the real reason why you should be interested in this book is because it explains how they did and how you too can stimulate profitable growth!

P&G have proven that the best way to win in the world is through innovation and that you don't have to wait around until someone gets a brilliant idea, you can make innovation happen routinely. If you are thinking that it must be easier for a huge company with vast resources to innovate, but not that easy for your small one, your department or your unit, the book will probably convince you otherwise.

This engaging description of P&G under Lafley demonstrates clearly that creating an innovation culture is doable. And since the company, department or unit that fails to innovate consistently and efficiently will fail sooner or later, you really should be at the breakfast...

Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas Friedman

Friedman the three time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times journalist has done it again! His book, The World is Flat was the number 1 international best seller and I think this one will do the same!

Some books are interesting, some books are educative, and some books change the way you think about the world. This book is one of the latter. Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is ‘hot, flat and crowded’. The book focuses on five problems: the growing demand for ever scarcer energy supplies and natural resources; a massive transfer of wealth to oil-rich countries and their petrodictators; disruptive climate change; energy poverty, in which the world is divided into the electricity haves and have-nots; and a rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss, as plants and animals become extinct at record rates.

The book not only enlightens, it entertains, and it lays out some profound implications for how we do business, how we live and what we need to do – now! – before it is too late. It is inspiring, incisive and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge and the promise of the future.

This is knowledge we all need to have...