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BBB 2009
Once a month, our lead strategic consultant, Ian Mann, hosts the now legendary “Business Book Breakfasts” at The Michelangelo Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa, and also in Cape Town in The Radisson Hotel. It's an opportunity to gain the sharpest insights from the hottest business books... without actually having to read them!
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to email and book your seat and catch up on the Business Book Breakfasts that you missed below.
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How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins
(More about the book below)
 The Next Hundred Years, George Freidman
(More about the book below)
Knowledge worth having
Gateways Business Book Breakfasts have been held every year from February through November for the past 14 years!
Venue and Date:
The Radisson Hotel, Granger Bay, Waterfront, CT from 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. on the 11th November 2009
Please confirm your attendance or non-attendance by replying to this email or by calling 011 788-8903
I look forward to seeing you
Ian Mann
Note: We charge you only the cost of the breakfast, which is now R 250.00 inclusive, so invoices are raised on your confirmation of attendance.
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Read more... [November 2009 Cape Town]
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November 2009 Johannesburg |
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 Borrowing Brilliance, David Kord Murray
There is nothing new under the sun, says Entrepreneur Murray. All good ideas are constructed out of existing ones, rather than viewing borrowing as theft, we should view it as necessary – even a desirable path to invention. Charles Darwin did it, as did George Lucas, Steven Jobs, Stephen King and a host of other inventors who knew how to take existing ideas and turn them into new answers for old problems.
 Clever, Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
Knowledge is not an isolated or nice-to-have phenomenon; it is the essence of most enterprises and the heart of the corporate and national competitiveness. What our brightest do, cannot be copied, and they know it - that is what makes clever people so infuriating to manage.
How do you manage a cardiac surgeon or super salesman who throws his toys out the cot every now and then? How do you manage people who are brighter than you and know it? How do you unleash the potential of clever people and then get them to work well with other clever people?
Knowledge worth having
Gateways Business Book Breakfasts have been held every year from February through November for the past 14 years!
Venue and Date:
Michelangelo Hotel, Sandton Square, WEDNESDAY 4th November 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Please confirm your attendance or non-attendance by replying to this email or by calling 011 788-8903
I look forward to seeing you
Ian Mann
Note: We charge you only the cost of the breakfast, which is now R 175.00 inclusive, so invoices are raised on your confirmation of attendance.
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Read more... [November 2009 Johannesburg]
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October 2009 Johannesburg |
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 False Economy, Allan Beattie
Why do some countries succeed and others fail? (Hint: It is not their geographic positions or natural assets.) Should a country import its staple food supplies? Why do some cities grow well and others lag behind? What can be done about this?
 The Next Hundred Years, Goerge Friedman
This is a forecast for the 21st century by the founder of Stratford, the world's leading private intelligence and forecasting company.
Knowledge worth having
Gateways Business Book Breakfasts have been held every year from February through November for the past 14 years!
Venue and Date:
Michelangelo Hotel, Sandton Square, WEDNESDAY 7th October 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m
Please confirm your attendance or non-attendance by replying to this email or by calling 011 788-8903
I look forward to seeing you!
Ian Mann
Note: We charge you only the cost of the breakfast, which is now R 175 inclusive, so invoices are raised on your confirmation of attendance.
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Read more... [October 2009 Johannesburg]
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September 2009 Johannesburg |
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 Free, Chris Anderson
Only 32 of the top 100 companies in the world today make things that can drop on your foot. The other 68 traffic mostly in ideas, or enable the markets for other’s goods. The more products are made of ideas rather than atoms, the faster they can get cheap – even free.
21st century “free” is different from 20th century “free.” While last century’s free was a powerful marketing method, this century’s free is an entirely new economic model.
How the mighty fall, Jim Collins
In his two previous books, “Built to Last” and “Good to Great”, Jim Collins identified great companies and what made them great. Some of those profiled are no longer great, some no longer exist.
The danger to companies, says Collins, is that like human beings they can look healthy on the outside with a cancer-like disease growing on the inside. But unlike a cancer, with companies the disease is largely self-inflicted.
Knowledge worth having
Gateways Business Book Breakfasts have been held every year from February through November for the past 14 years!
Venue and Date:
Michelangelo Hotel, Sandton Square, WEDNESDAY 2nd September 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m
For more details contact:
Johannesburg office:- Telephone: 011 788 8903, Fax: 011 788 8908
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Read more... [September 2009 Johannesburg]
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 Strategic Business Forecasting, Simon Ramo & Ronald Sugar
Don't you really wish you could forecast the future based on more than intuition and hope?
For all who would not abandon their enterprises to chance, and would really like to do a credible job of forecasting, Ramo and Sugar's book is good place to start. It is practical and grounded and it is easy to follow the logic of their methodology. The book is divided into two parts, the first describing the methodology and the second a mind stretching journey through a set of forecasts using the methodology.
 A Splendid Exchange, William Bernstein
The subtitle describes the book succinctly: "How trade shaped the world." This 450 page history of trade reads like a novel and is riveting! Bernstein is a financial theorist and historian, a seriously thoughtful intellectual and a gifted story teller. He has managed to weave together the extraordinary story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the numerous controversies surrounding it today.
We are currently at a point in the evolution of trade where we don't think twice about biting into an orange grown on the other side of the world, as we listen to local music played on an MP3 player constructed of components made in 5 different countries. To get a perspective on the enormity of world trade, consider that in 2006 the world's countries exported $11.8 trillion in goods and services, and that world trade has nearly doubled in less than a decade.
Venue and Date:
Michelangelo Hotel, Sandton Square, WEDNESDAY 5th August 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m
For more details contact:
Johannesburg office:- Telephone: 011 788 8903, Fax: 011 788 8908
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Read more... [August 2009 Johannesburg]
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