Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World

Written by Bruno Roche, Jay Jakub, Martin Radvan and Colin Mayer

Narrated by Tom Kruse

Proven, Profitable, and Sustainable

For the past fifty years, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. In this analytically rigorous and eminently practical book, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub offer a more complete form of capitalism, one that delivers superior financial performance precisely because it mobilizes and generates human, social, and natural capital along with financial capital. They describe how the model has been implemented in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed financial capitalism's shortcomings, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, field-tested alternative.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Release date: May 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781626569263

Reviews for Completing Capitalism

[Belinda Wrigley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

One of the earliest pieces that sets apart what tomorrow’s great businesses need to be doing today.

Roche and Jacub do an excellent job at showing what’s been wrong with our narrow view of capitalism when businesses focus on short term financial returns to the detriment of other stakeholders.

This is not simply a call to altruism but sound strategic advice to the businesses sustainability and superior performance in the long run.