Rethinking America

by Hedrick Smith

• ISBN13: 9780679435518
• ISBN10: 0679435514
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-05-08
• Publisher: Random House Digital Inc.

Summary

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Russians, The Power Game, and The New Russians shows how America has lost ground, and reveals how innovators are creating new strategies to win in the new global game.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking America
New Mind-Set/Old Mind-Set - Challengers Versus Champions: Sharp Versus RCA - How Singles Beat Home Runs	p. 6
The New Global Game - People, Quality, Flexibility, Trust: What GM and Mercedes Had to Learn from Toyota	p. 34
The Success Reflex: IBM - Seeing Change as a Threat, Not as an Opportunity	p. 72
School - Where the Race Begins: Teamwork or Tracking - Which Works Best?	p. 100
High School - The Neglected Majority: Whose Mid-Kids Are on Track for the Global Economy?	p. 126
Harlem - Teaching Habits of Mind: It's Not "Academic," It's "Real Life"	p. 152
Wisconsin - Business and Schools as Partners: Youth Apprenticeships - A New Deal for the Neglected Majority	p. 173
People: Protecting and Developing Human Capital	p. 196
Partnership: The Turnaround at Ford - "We-We" Instead of "Us Versus Them"	p. 216
Power Sharing: Owners, Managers, and Workers - "Sitting in One Boat"	p. 234
Stakeholders Versus Shareholders: Gaining the Long-Term Edge in the Boardroom	p. 262
The Network: Mitsubishi's Mutual Protection Society - The Corporate Clan	p. 293
Counterattack: Motorola - No Market Sanctuary for the Japanese	p. 317
Europe's Grand Coalition: Boeing and the Challenge from Airbus	p. 350
America's Industrial Partnership: Sematech - Reagan's Radical Rescue Plan	p. 377
The Unfinished Agenda: High Performance and the Perpetual Revolution	p. 405
Bibliography	p. 421
Notes	p. 427
Index	p. 451
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