A thought-provoking presentation about already discernible global trends.
Business consultant Charan (The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers, 2011, etc.) offers his view of where the world economy is headed in the next 20 years, along with his prescriptions for success.
Despite often heard concerns about stagnation in Europe and Japan and slow recovery in the United States, the author attempts to drive home a sense of a bigger picture, in which the economies of what he calls “the south” (the developing world, including China and India) will continue to grow at a pace fast enough to support world growth at around 3 percent per annum. This translates into trillions of dollars of new business. Future economic success stories will belong to those who have developed the knowledge and leadership that enable them to tap into the wealth portended in the author's growth forecast. The author anticipates that the world's middle class—those who can spend $10-$100 per day—will grow to around 5 billion by the year 2030. He recommends a twofold approach for leaders whose ambitions will lead them into the competition for that market: They need to be able to think from what he calls “the outside in” and “the future back.” The former involves being able to conceptualize how another culture really works, rather than importing prevailing assumptions from the outside, and the latter, the ability to conceptualize a goal over time, then working back to the present to define the steps required to secure its implementation. To further elaborate on his overall approach, the author examines the case studies of Bharti Airtel, a leading Indian wireless company, and China's Haer consumer appliance manufacturer, which have both risen to international leadership in very short time frames.
A thought-provoking presentation about already discernible global trends.Pub Date: Feb. 26, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-307-88912-6
Page Count: 336
Publisher: Crown Business
Review Posted Online: Jan. 13, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2013
A forceful, necessarily provocative call to action for the preservation and protection of American Jewish freedom.
Known for her often contentious perspectives, New York Times opinion writer Weiss battles societal Jewish intolerance through lucid prose and a linear playbook of remedies.
While she was vividly aware of anti-Semitism throughout her life, the reality of the problem hit home when an active shooter stormed a Pittsburgh synagogue where her family regularly met for morning services and where she became a bat mitzvah years earlier. The massacre that ensued there further spurred her outrage and passionate activism. She writes that European Jews face a three-pronged threat in contemporary society, where physical, moral, and political fears of mounting violence are putting their general safety in jeopardy. She believes that Americans live in an era when “the lunatic fringe has gone mainstream” and Jews have been forced to become “a people apart.” With palpable frustration, she adroitly assesses the origins of anti-Semitism and how its prevalence is increasing through more discreet portals such as internet self-radicalization. Furthermore, the erosion of civility and tolerance and the demonization of minorities continue via the “casual racism” of political figures like Donald Trump. Following densely political discourses on Zionism and radical Islam, the author offers a list of bullet-point solutions focused on using behavioral and personal action items—individual accountability, active involvement, building community, loving neighbors, etc.—to help stem the tide of anti-Semitism. Weiss sounds a clarion call to Jewish readers who share her growing angst as well as non-Jewish Americans who wish to arm themselves with the knowledge and intellectual tools to combat marginalization and defuse and disavow trends of dehumanizing behavior. “Call it out,” she writes. “Especially when it’s hard.” At the core of the text is the author’s concern for the health and safety of American citizens, and she encourages anyone “who loves freedom and seeks to protect it” to join with her in vigorous activism.
A forceful, necessarily provocative call to action for the preservation and protection of American Jewish freedom.Pub Date: Sept. 10, 2019
ISBN: 978-0-593-13605-8
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Crown
Review Posted Online: Aug. 22, 2019
A heartfelt if somewhat unsurprising view of old age by the former president. Carter (Living Faith, 1996, etc.) succinctly evaluates the evolution and current status of federal policies concerning the elderly (including a balanced appraisal of the difficulties facing the Social Security system). He also meditates, while drawing heavily on autobiographical anecdotes, on the possibilities for exploration and intellectual and spiritual growth in old age. There are few lightning bolts to dazzle in his prescriptions (cultivate family ties; pursue the restorative pleasures of hobbies and socially minded activities). Yet the warmth and frankness of Carter’s remarks prove disarming. Given its brevity, the work is more of a call to senior citizens to reconsider how best to live life than it is a guide to any of the details involved.
Pub Date: Oct. 26, 1998
ISBN: 0-345-42592-8
Page Count: 96
Publisher: Ballantine
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 1998
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