Fixing Business: Making Profitable Business Work for the Good of All

About the Book

From the Back Cover

One of the most important institutions in modern Britain is facing a crisis. In fact, the relationship between three of Britain's most important institutions is broken. When Business - which generates wealth, taxation, employment, products, services and innovations - Government - which regulates, seeks social progress and has a mandate to lead - and Society - all of us - cannot work together, it's something that should concern us all. Yet while the connection between Government and Society is often reported and analysed, the crucial relationship between Business and Society is much less understood.

Business faces a range of difficult problems: many of its own making, some that are not, and it is time that these were addressed. According to Lord Digby Jones, Business must recognise that it has a vital role to play in society and it needs to start fulfilling that role better. This book is about Business: what it means, why it matters and, more significantly, the challenges it currently faces and the solutions that it needs to adopt if it is to succeed for the benefit of us all.

In this follow-up to his widely acclaimed Fixing Britain, Lord Digby Jones turns his eye to Business, by proposing a way to salvage this often maligned word and make profit creation a socially-beneficial act. Lord Jones pulls no punches in addressing the major factors that influence, and are influenced by, Business today, including:

- Britain in a post-Brexit world

- Donald Trump's America

- The "Elephant in the Boardroom" or Executive Pay

Profit is not a dirty word. It is an agent for good if properly used. Communities, charities and every part of Society are better served when businesses, large and small, are buoyant. Fixing Business calls out to all businesses and their leaders to rise to the challenge.