The Small-Mart Revolution How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition

by Shuman, Michael H.

• ISBN13: 9781576754665
• ISBN10: 1576754669
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 8/12/2007
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

Shuman's book offers an approach that is both positive and practical. Readers will be surprised to learn that changing their own consumption and investment habits is easier (and smarter) than they think."The Small-Mart Revolution not only provides an alternative analysis, it tells us how we can make it happen." (Robert Greenwald, director of Wal-Mart)

Author Biography

Michael Shuman is Vice President for Enterprise Development at the Training & Development Corporation

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction: From Wal-Mart to Small-Mart	p. 1
The Gathering Gale
Wreckonomics	p. 21
The LOIS Alternative	p. 39
Amazing Shrinking Machines	p. 63
The Small-Mart Patriots
Consumers	p. 97
Investors	p. 118
Entrepreneurs	p. 134
Policymakers	p. 160
Community Builders	p. 189
Globalizers	p. 210
The Fall and Rise of Small-Scale Competitiveness	p. 225
The Scale of Existing Business by Payroll	p. 231
Acknowledgments	p. 235
About the Author	p. 243
Notes	p. 245
Index	p. 271
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