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The great disruption : how business is coping with turbulent times /

The Great Disruption is a collection drawn from Adrian Wooldridge's influential Schumpeter columns in The Economist addressing the causes and profound consequences of the unprecedented disruption of business over the past five years.The Great Disruption has many causes. The internet is spreadin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wooldridge, Adrian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : PublicAffairs, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Economist Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: the age of Schumpeter; Part 1: 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; Part 2: 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 frackingThe transience of power; Part 3: Winners and losers; The other demographic dividend; The daughter also rises; Uncaging the lions; Flower power; Those bloody Scandinavians; Bringing home the bacon; In praise of misfits; Of companies and closets; Enterprising oldies; Ideas reinvenTED; The shackled boss; Bumpkin bosses; Declining by degree; Angst for the educated; Part 4: 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 sharingThe bottom of the pyramid; The tussle for talent; Age shall not wither them; Womenomics; The art of management; Part 5: 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; Part 6: 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 skivingPart 7: 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; Index