This edition first published 2017.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jones, Digby, 1955- author.
Title: Fixing business : making profitable business work for the good of all / Lord Digby Jones.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley, [2017] | Includes index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017007714 (print) | ISBN 9781119287391 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Social responsibility of business—Great Britain. | Success in business—Great Britain.
Classification: LCC HD60.5.G7 J66 2017 (print) | DDC 658.4/08—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007714
ISBN 978-1-119-28739-1 (hbk) ISBN 978-1-119-28741-4 (ebk)
ISBN 978-1-119-28740-7 (ebk)
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This book is dedicated to three special people:
To my Mum, without whom I guess I wouldn't be here! It is a privilege to help look after her at 93 given all those years she looked after me.
To my dear friend Simon Biggs who died too early in October 2016 and left the hole, where fun and laughter should be, that is always created when the bright flame of a life well-lived flickers out.
And most of all to Patti who over the past thirty-five years has been, is and God-willing always will be simply my rock.