Here The State We're In made a misjudgment I would give a lot to change. If I had made the case for stakeholding much more around Britain and America's experience - and downplayed its success in German and Japanese companies, where so much is muddied by other economic problems - the argument would have been culturally easier to accept. In Built to Last, James Collins and Jerry Porras showed how 17 of America's best and most innovative companies had been constructed on stakeholder principles - organisational purpose, long-term commitment and worker engagement. It has been the US's bestselling business book. But over 10 years, the world has inevitably moved on. Some of the darker concerns of The State We're In have not happened, in part because New Labour, although fashionably derided, has stemmed and reversed some of the adverse social trends, and in part because some of the assumptions I made about what was economically sustainable and how capitalism worked in an era of globalisation have proved wrong. I thought that British consumers, saturated with debt from the 1980s, could hardly rescue the British economy again and, even if they did, that our export earners were so weakened by Thatcherism that if the economy grew at any meaningful rate, Britain would be left with a huge trade deficit. Companies could only find a way out by being offering ever meaner and insecure work. I began the book six months after Britain's exit from the ERM, when, without a decisive change of course, the best bet seemed more of the previous 20 years of economic decline. The stage performance was held in an Atlanta theater across two days, with the song having already been recorded in New York beforehand due to COVID restrictions preventing the singers from performing along. Jeremy Renner was one of the hundreds serving as the audience. [2] Presented in those terms, Blair might have been attached to stakeholding for longer than the 10 days he flirted with it after his Singapore speech in 1996 - and even Brown, so attached to American enterprise, might have given it more support. But Collins and Porras published Built to Last when The State We're In was already at the printers.

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Dean is a resolute cynic. After a brief (but not brief enough) trip to London, he’s returning to Chicago, where he moved to escape his dysfunctional past. Britain had developed a fractured '30/30/40'society - 30 per cent disadvantaged and marginalised; 30 per cent insecure; 40 per cent privileged. This was created by a capitalism preoccupied with short-term financial gains and the next deal rather than building businesses and husbanding workforces. In the time it takes to fly from London to Chicago, each finds something in the other that they didn’t even realise they needed.At Marvel Studios' suggestion, the composers agreed to make the song inspired by the Battle of New York. After the initial demo, recorded by Shaiman and singer Adam Pascal, got the approval of Marvel, "Save the City" was then developed into a full song. [1] Jo is a hopeless romantic. Worried she let her soulmate slip away, she’s chasing her past all the way

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Rereading the book with some trepidation last week, I found myself as convinced about this core analysis as ever. The two chapters on how our financial system betrays business still stand (despite some small improvement) and I remain a champion of stakeholder capitalism together with a vital public realm as a means of achieving better economic performance and a fairer society. The economic challenge of the next decade is to create a viable knowledge economy. New Labour has laid some foundations via its science investment and its strengthening of universities. It now needs to go further by invigorating the idea of stakeholding and business building. On this, at least, it could find agreement.