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Michael Tobin

"Radical, creative, often extreme, and incredibly successful management techniques from a leading global entrepreneurWritten from the point of view of someone achieving business success in today's turbulent economy The Non-Strategy Book offers you a fresh way of thinking about successfully managing any sort of business, under any conditions. Controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining, it delivers TelecityGroup founder and CEO, Mike Tobin's unconventional approach to management and shares the lessons he's learned on his path to building one of the world's largest data center provider companies. Radical, creative, often extreme, the techniques it describes are the same ones Mike uses every day at TelecityGroup, and with which he has achieved nothing short of awe-inspiring results. Inspiration and practical tips for managers or business leaders who are stuck in a rut and in search of new ways to motivate their teams, make bolder decisions and handle change with more agility Makes managers at all levels rethink and reassess the way they plan, manage, and deliver vision in their organizations Identifies eleven fundamental rules that any manager or leader can adopt at any level in any organization Identifies the core characteristics that underpin Mike Tobin's controversial management philosophy and illustrates how they have been applied with fascinating, often hilarious stories and vignettes "--

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William E. Nothdurft

"In the battle for global economic competitiveness, America's small and medium-sized businesses are at a significant disadvantage. Every major industrial nation in the world has developed a well-integrated system of public and private sector export assistance programs aimed specifically at the small and medium-sized businesses that make up the foundation of any economy. Every nation, that is, except the United States. Federal and state agencies and private organizations routinely urge small firms to export, but no coherent strategies guide these exhortations, and the resources committed to the task are paltry compared with the investments made by our competitors."--BOOK JACKET. "In this groundbreaking book, William Nothdurft explores the principles that underlie European programs to help small and medium-sized firms export, and presents practical, policy-oriented guidance for creating high-yield export assistance programs in tough economic times."--BOOK JACKET. "In a fresh, and compelling style, Going Global addresses five key questions at the heart of the export challenge: Why don't more small and medium-sized firms export? Who should be helped with exporting? What forms of assistance work best under which conditions? Where and by whom should assistance be delivered? And how should export assistance be financed? Having analyzed some of Europe's most innovative public and private sector initiatives, Nothdurft presents ten practical lessons for creating high-yield export assistance programs. He explores each lesson in detail and presents examples of programs under way in Europe to illustrate each lesson."--BOOK JACKET. "In concluding, Nothdurft urges government and industry officials to think strategically about trade development and begin building a public-private export assistance infrastructure capable of meeting the global trade challenge head-on."--BOOK JACKET.

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Peter Evans

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in-between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans calls "embedded autonomy."

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Thomas Gordon

L.E.T. has changed countless corporations and private businesses-including many Fortune 500 companies-with its down-to-earth communication and conflict resolution skills. Now, this indispensable source has been newly revised with updated research and timely case studies.