Worth a read

"Managing the Dragon", by Jack Perkowski; a meta-review

"Managing the Dragon: Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China", written by Jack Perkowski, was released in South Africa in July 2009. Following a successful career as an American banker on Wall Street, Perkowski was ready for a new challenge. In the early 1990s, at the age of 42, he moved to China (with more than US$400 million in private equity financing) and opened a manufacturing business specialising in car components.

Read more: Worth a read

The remarkable story of rick

Jessica Scott reviews Peter L. Berstein’s book Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk which, after a study of the history of man’s attempts to come to grips with the management of risk, concludes that attitudes about risk which evolved over the past 800 years led to the development of modern society with its science, capitalism and democracy.

Read more: Safely to the future

The richest man's recipe

Robert Macdonald reviews Alice Schroeder’s The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, which was published by Bloomsbury in 2008.