Business Monthly: BOOK REVIEW WHAT'S NEXT? ; EXPLAINING THE NEW TERRAIN FOR BUSINESS Eamonn Kelly, Peter Leyden and Members of the Global Business Network John Wiley (Pounds 19.99)

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As it proudly proclaims, this is not a typical business book. Most in the field are packed with can-do injunctions, radical prescriptions for change or simply basic lessons from a master. But What's Next? is genuinely different, particularly in that it asks more questions than it answers.

Any business owner or manager picking it up in the hope of finding a definite route through all the confusion that currently characterises the business world will be sorely disappointed. But, assuming they do not put it down in favour of one with punchy diagrams and/or catchy homilies, they will find much valuable guidance.

Kelly, Leyden and their colleagues in the Global …