The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business

Harvard Business Review Pres, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Welcome to the worst decade since the Great Depression. Trillions of dollar s of financial assets and shareholder value destroyed; worldwide GDP stalle d; new jobs vanishingly scarce. But this isn't just a severe recession. It' s evidence that our economic institutions are obsolete-a set of ideas inher ited from the industrial age that no longer work for business, people, soci ety, or the future. In The New Capitalist Manifesto, economic strategist Umair Haque argues tha t business as usual has outgrown the old paradigm of short-term growth, com petition at all costs, adversarial strategy, and pushing costs onto future generations. These outworn assumptions are good for creating only "thin" va lue-gains that are largely illusory and produce diminishing returns every y ear. For "thick" value-enduring, meaningful, sustainable advantage that deeply b enefits the larger society-Haque details five new cornerstones of prosperit y in the twenty-first century: ?Loss advantage: From value chains to value cycles ?Responsiveness: From value propositions to value conversations ?Resilience: From strategy to philosophy ?Creativity: From protecting a marketplace to completing a marketplace ?Difference: From goods to betters The New Capitalist Manifesto makes a passionate, razor-sharp economic case that these methods will produce a more enduring prosperity for business as well as society. Editorial Reviews Review "Umair Haque's The New Capitalist Manifesto is worth reading; primarily, because in it,