Humanity Wins

A Strategy for Progress and Leadership in Times of Change

Reinhard Mohn

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Crown Publications
02 March 2001

Organisational theory & behaviour

Humanity Wins is a thoughtful and affirming examination of how we can adapt systematically, as individuals and as a society, to the staggering changes occurring in the world around us.

As global change accelerates, our political and social systems are barely keeping pace. Venerated institutions at every level, from the family to national governments, are struggling to operate under rules designed for a world that no longer exists.

Reinhard Mohn, the innovative entrepreneur who built Bertelsmann, Inc., into the fourth largest media company in the world, argues that the new world we are creating demands new rules, new strategies, and new systems. Just as business has undergone a radical transformation in the last twenty years, moving from centralized corporate hierarchies to decentralized dynamic organizations, so must society. Mohn shows how social institutions can adapt the best of what business leaders have learned -- and avoid repeating their mistakes.

Ultimately, Mohn, an elder statesman of the global economy, makes a moving case for a new, ethics-based, dynamic world order and provides concrete models for putting his ideas to work. We can adapt to the changes we have wrought, Mohn writes. This is how humanity will win.

By: Reinhard Mohn
Imprint: Crown Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 335g
ISBN: 9780609608067
ISBN 10: 0609608061
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 02 March 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

REINHAIID MOHN is the great-great-grandson of Carl Bertelsmann, the founder of the Bertelsmann publishing house. Over the course of forty years Mohn built Bertelsmann into an international media conglomerate that includes magazine, book, and music publishing houses. He is currently chairman of the board of the Bertelsmann Foundation.

Reviews for Humanity Wins: A Strategy for Progress and Leadership in Times of Change

In the eighteen-nineties, William H. Rau, a leading Philadelphia photographer, turned an advertising assignment for the Pennsylvania Railroad into a major artistic project. Using a specially adapted railway car and two colossal cameras, he photographed everything from the mahogany interiors of luxury cars to freight yards, tunnels, and switch towers. His grandest effects are achieved in meticulously composed studies of the landscape traversed by the railroad... In Rau's lens even the most ordinary railway junction becomes a Euclidean marvel of intertwining lines. -New Yorker