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The great disruption : how business is coping with turbulent times

Summary:

"Drawn from [the author's] popular Schumpeter column for 'The Economist,' [this work] weighs up the essential thinking on innovation, reveals the forces that are transforming the business landscape today, and examines how individuals, companies and governments are surviving disruption to explain what our future holds"--Page 4 of cover.

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  • ISBN: 9781610395076 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1610395077 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"The Economist"
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: the age of Schumpeter -- The gurus of disruption -- Taking flight -- Remembering Drucker -- Why do firms exist? -- Exit Albert Hirschman -- Ahead of the curve -- The guru of the bottom of the pyramid -- Think different -- Built to last -- The breaking bad school -- Forces of disruption -- An emerging challenge -- Mall of the masses -- Asian innovation -- Getting on the treadmill -- The case against globaloney -- Crazy diamonds -- The wiki way -- Building with big data -- I, robot-manager -- The eclipse of the public company -- Leviathan as capitalist -- The silver tsunami -- The father of fracking -- The transience of power -- Winners and losers -- The other demographic dividend -- The daughter also rises -- Uncaging the lions -- Floqer power -- Those bloody Scandinavians -- Bringing home the bacon -- In praise of misfits -- Of companies and closets -- Enterprising oldies -- Ideas reinven TED -- The shackled boss -- Bumpkin bosses -- Declining by degree -- Angst for the educated -- Surviving disruption: the case of companies -- Measuring management -- Unpacking lego -- Taking the long view -- The silence of Mammon -- Mittel-management -- The corruption eruption -- Fail often, fail well -- The business of sharing -- The bottom of the pyramid -- The tussle for talent -- Age shall not wither them -- Womenomics -- The art of management -- Surviving disruption: the case of governments -- Beyond the start-up nation -- Fixing the capitalist machine -- Rules for fools -- Ties that bind -- Cronies and capitols -- The entrepreneurial state -- The great mismatch -- A hospital case -- Saving Britain's health service -- The world of workers -- The wolves of the web -- Hating what you do -- Too much information -- Going off the rails -- The mindfulness business -- Too many chiefs -- Down with fun -- In praise of laziness -- A guide to skiving -- Beyond the great disruption -- The will to power -- Of businessmen and ballerinas -- A tissue of lies -- The status seekers -- When stars go cuckoo -- No rush -- Sticking together -- Philosopher kings.
Subject: Organizational change > Management.
Commerce > Technological innovations.
Business > Technological innovations.

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