1:  ‘Simply Silly’ 2,823 votes

2:  ‘The Virgin Community Bank’ 2,443 votes

3:  ‘A World without offices’ 1,168 [...]]]> Drum roll… The top 5 shared ‘Screw Business as Usual’ ideas to date as voted for by the public are…

1:  ‘Simply Silly’ 2,823 votes

2:  ‘The Virgin Community Bank’ 2,443 votes

3:  ‘A World without offices’ 1,168 votes

4:  ‘Screw Banking As Usual’ 558 votes

5:  ‘The Power Of Injecting LOVE Into Business!’ 281 votes

Go check them out and get voting for your favorites!

We’ll be updating our ‘Grand Prize’ leader board once a month. After our monthly winners are announced on the 15th.

Here are our winners and some amazing ‘Screw Business as Usual’ ideas and stories.

Eddie Yu: A world without offices

Simon [...]]]> Congratulations to our five December winners who shared some great ‘Screw Business as Usual’ ideas with us. Each will receive a copy of ‘Screw Business as Usual’ signed by Richard Branson.

Here are our winners and some amazing ‘Screw Business as Usual’ ideas and stories.

Eddie Yu: A world without offices

Simon Dixon: Screw Banking as Usual

Rafael Juarez: The Power of injecting LOVE into business!

Lynne Scott: How I ‘Screwed Business as Usual’

Robert Farrell: Tied together

All executive compensation should be a multiple of a company’s lowest paid worker. For example, if the lowest paid worker in the company is at 20K per year the max an executive could earn would be 10-20 times this amount or 200-400K. If the CEO or exec’s want raises they must raise the salary of the lowest paid staff member. In this way success is spread over the entire company and eliminates the disparity between the highest and lowest paid worker. It recognizes the value of exec’s but also recognizes the value of general staff also. Today and in the past exec’s seemed to be the only people rewarded for a company’s success. Often riding on the backs of their workers. This allows workers to be more invested in the success of their company and increases the value placed on their efforts. A real win/win for all.

Grand Prize: All monthly winners are also in the running to win our Grand Prize spot on a Virgin Unite Connection Trip to South Africa with Richard Branson.

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Screw Business as Usual has gone into the Sunday Times business chart top ten. The book, which calls for the world to use business as a force for good, has also topped the [...]]]> Richard Branson’s latest book Screw Business As Usual has been attracting lots of attention since its release in the UK.

Screw Business as Usual has gone into the Sunday Times business chart top ten. The book, which calls for the world to use business as a force for good, has also topped the Huffington Post holiday gift guide. Already a massive hit in the UK Screw Business As Usual is due to be released in the US on December 8th.

What the press have been saying about ‘Screw Business as Usual’:

“We have all got to get out and create the jobs and mend the mess that those people who were too greedy have put the world into.” – Jonathan Moules, Enterprise Editor, Financial Times

“We must learn that doing good is good for business… If businesses are purely about profit they won’t be around for long.” – Geoffrey Lean, Daily Telegraph

“Capitalism has lost its way” – Graham Snowdon, The Guardian

“the new book outlines how businesses should ‘shift from a profit to a caring for people focus” – Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, Marketing

“Sir Richard Branson calls for business to reinvent themselves at launch of new book… This wasn’t just a book launch; more a movement” – Start ups

What we’re saying:

“It is about celebrating the inventors of the world.” – Jean Oelwang

“I happen to be in business because I believe business can be a force for good.”  – Richard Branson

Reviews:

“Overall, Screw Business as Usual certainly inspires but at a much deeper level – with the sense of our people and planet at the core. It starts off by being introduced to what Richard hopes to achieve from the book as well as outlining what he believes is the way forward in business – Capitalism 24,902.”  - Renae Smith  (read the full review)

“By the time I’d finished the foreword I was in tears. Why? Because it was as if Richard Branson had read my mind and had taken a peep at how, in my very small way, I feel about running my own business. Wonderfully I see others just like me who believe that however small their contributions, however limited their time or resources they can make a difference and they strive to do this. Like me they really believe that they can drop their penny into the pool and it will create a ripple of change.” – Jayne Cox (read the full review)

Tell us your Screw Business [...]]]> Richard Branson launches his new book in London. In Screw Business as Usual, Richard reveals his exciting new vision for the future. It’s time to turn capitalism upside down – to shift our values, to switch from a just profit focus, to caring for people, communities and the planet.

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