Get inspired with Elevate magazine – new issue out now

Thursday, July 07, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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You’ve read the blog, now read the magazine. Grant Thornton’s summer issue of Elevate magazine for UK business leaders is here at last, featuring stories on empire building and succession, finance flow and China, as well as interviews with leading, innovative business thinkers. For a full preview of what’s inside and details of how to get hold of a copy, read on…

We publish Elevate magazine twice each year and it’s packed with 44 pages of the latest thinking for and from UK entrepreneurs and business leaders. Over the coming months we’ll be reposting some of the articles here on the Elevate blog, but to get hold of a full copy now, simply register your name and email address and choose which Grant Thornton publications you would like to receive.

Our Summer 2011 issue features:

* How Spanair surprised its passengers with a random act of kindness.

* Gurus 2 go – Jason Fried of 37 Signals and author Steven Johnson.

* Testing the finance flow – a summary of the Grant Thornton financing report asks: what can the banks do to help business?

* Facts & figures – M&A deals, court rulings, business failures.

* Big Macenomics – a revealing comparison of Big Mac prices versus inflation in 13 countries. Find out what the burger index reveals about the UK.

* Devil’s advocate – family firms aren’t badly managed, they just have different benchmarking criteria from other types of business.

* Family business – why passing the top job to the first-born is a sure route to poor performance in developed markets.

* COVER STORY – Interview with Seth Godin, author and pioneer of permission marketing. (Also, listen to Seth Godin’s Big Decision on the moment he chose to fire his biggest client.)

* Crude awakening – oil countries and the financial crisis.

* Innovative business thinking – we talk to a non-conformist, a visionary and a creative thinker.

* It’s all about China as luxury brands around the world form the new gold rush.

* Interview with Alan Webber, Fast Company founder. (Also, find out about Alan’s career-defining moment in his My Big Decision vodcast.)

* Meet a man of the world – Philip Curtis, director of The Map House.

* Public companies and the difficult decision to go private.

* Empire -building and ‘that difficult third generation’ – a story of two Chinese billionaires is followed by advice from Grant Thornton’s Head of Private Client on how later-generation companies can protect their inherited family wealth.

* Bonds – three experts give their views on bonds and modern investing.

* A day in the life of Travelex CEO Peter Jackson

* Olympic medallist Roger Black, MBE, talks about his beloved Martin D28 acoustic guitar.

How to get a copy
Visit our registration page and fill in your name and email address – you’ll then be redirected to a page of options for Grant Thornton publications.

We also invite you to look around the Elevate blog and to sign up for updates. Here’s where we talk business between issues!

You might also find these posts useful:

* Three entrepreneurs reveal their business drivers
* My Big Decision: find out the life-changing moments of business leaders and thinkers in our interview series.
* What can showbiz teach real biz? Alex Connock of Ten Alps reports…