Travels with an Inflatable Elephant: Attempts to Make Things Happen and Not Happen - Softcover

Jerry Marshall

 
9781909728042: Travels with an Inflatable Elephant: Attempts to Make Things Happen and Not Happen

Synopsis

Jerry Marshall believes in setting at least one audacious goal every year. Recent goals include attempting to save the government 50 billion, and setting up a call centre in Bethlehem to create jobs unaffected by border closures. He s a serial entrepreneur and a sailing fanatic, has fought with Pete Waterman on breakfast TV and once won a unicycling race. This book is about hard-won lessons in entrepreneurial leadership applied to many different spheres, including social enterprise, fighting poverty and political campaigning. It s a story of money, sex, family, faith and inflating large white elephants.

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