1. In South Africa today when you speak of starting or expanding a business you would probably be buying a stake in a multi-million rand business as a B.E.E. (Black Economic Empowerment) partner where esoteric communication is used to put the deals together. The survivalist and smaller enterprises operate in many overtraded environments (often retail) where failure is the order of the day; maybe because they had no access to practical experience such as provided here by Business Tips.
2. Business Tips speaks in simple language. It is not a work for academics but they will find it interesting. Medium-sized organizations including NGOs (non-Governmental Organisations) should also find the message credible and the tips applicable. The author illustrates by practical experience.
3. The book differs from many by spelling out the relationships clearly between stakeholders in a business. These are the customers and staff, the environments of the industry and the community. This then gives the framework of relationships on which to build a Constitution for every business or organisation.
4. I have excellent credentials to write this book, having spent half my life employing myself and many others, surmounting the odds of apartheid repressive laws which curtailed business activity by blacks.
5.Business Tips covers 227 pages. There are 13 chapters, including 12 functional tables, 2 interesting case studies, and 60 informative multiple-choice questions and an Index.
6. People intending to start up on their own as well as practicing businesspeople must read this book first before their next move. It may be a South African book but its message is without borders.