By Roger Camrass
In Atomic the authors' innovative thought is placed to the try. taking a look throughout all sectors of commercial, together with retail banking, monetary providers, telecommunications, IT and consultancy, carbon-based agencies (oil and gasoline companies), and buyer items businesses, Camrass and Farncombe notice a few actual eye-openers, together with how really extra effective those industries turn into via a transformation in company structure.The implications for people are both profound and far-reaching. it can take a decade, however it will occur, and not anything could be the comparable back. Welcome to the Atomic company.
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Where did that delta come from? Welcome to the 2% world Consider the economic pressures acting on your corporation. With inflation at its lowest point in fifty years (under 2% in many developed economies) and interest rates approaching zero, corporations are really under the microscope. Stocks should be more attractive than fixed-interest investments, but stock markets everywhere are down the pan. Many of the world’s largest corporations have seen their share prices halved and halved again. Why? According to the doyenne of the UK fund management community, Nicola Horlick, in such a low inflation world corporations have nowhere to hide.