The best Australian business writing 2012 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Cornell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910479948503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sydney, : NewSouth Pub., 2012
• ISBN: 1-74224-132-8; 1-74224-620-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Collana: A NewSouth book
• Altri autori (Persone): CornellAndrew
• Disciplina: 808.066651; 808/.066651
• Soggetti: Business writing - Australia; Technical writing - Australia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""CONTENTS""; ""Advisory panel""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword: Business is written into our lives""; ""Introduction: Humanity in a balance sheet and P&L""; ""Bobby Kennedy and the wealth of nations and corporations ""; ""Love for sale""; ""From the tyranny of distance to the power of proximity ""; ""Occupy's big no was a big yes to something else""; ""Gravity's revenge""; ""Time for radical bank reform""; ""The real cost of 'security'""; ""Port's pain isn't limited to the field""; ""Women should act more like men (and they are their own worst enemies)""; ""Hold your fire!""; ""The great convergence""""Is this the man for the future?""; ""Who knew what when?""; ""Middle Kingdom just wants to be middle class""; ""Making sense of productivity""; ""Biz-bashing rewards Abbott""; ""The millionaire's malaise""; ""Turning dirt into soil: Killing two birds with one carbon stone ""; ""Curator superstar""; ""Clubs already have their own licence""; ""The dispossessed: The decline of a coastal Koori community ""; ""Big bash theory""; ""The Sun King""; ""Why GDP doesn't count""; ""Fair Share: Country and city in Australia""; ""Google world""; ""World Series Cricket: Set up""; ""Eye on the money""""Back to work, baby boomers""; ""In search of a ; better death""; ""Tower of babble""; ""Acknowledgments""
• Sommario/riassunto: Have Baby Boomers been forced back to work since the GFC? Why do we rely on the arbitrary and illusory numbers of double-entry book-keeping to direct our policies, institutions, economies and societies? Will pre-commitment cards for poker machines coerce the addicted gambler to think before he or she acts? Is airport security a waste of time and money? Not just a series of numbers and facts, good business writing is informative, provocative, funny, even moving. In this first edition of a new annual anthology showcasing the best of Australian business writing, editor Andrew Cornell shows just h