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Icons and Idiots
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 12.99?Most successful leaders are mentally and emotionally askew. There?s a good side, which gets the job done. There?s often also a downside that makes them hard to understand or difficult to work for. It?s precisely that they are impatient, stubborn, opinionated, unsatisfied, and domineering that makes them successful.? When Bob Lutz retired from... more...
Hybrid Factories in Latin America
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 100.00Explores the Latin American economy and management through the study of Japanese companies in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Based on detailed case studies, this volume offers a bird's eye view of foreign investments in Latin America. more...
Henry Ford
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 19.99Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern... more...
Korean Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 148.00This book examines Foreign Direct Investment of major Korean automotive companies in Europe, with particular reference to how economic integration has affected the motivations and patterns of FDI and industrial location. The book is a valuable source of information on FDI, the automobile industry in Europe and South Korea and business decision-making... more...
The Machine That Changed the World
Free Press 2007; US$ 15.95When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that... more...
The People's Tycoon
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 20.00How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford?s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable... more...
The Selling of the American Economy
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 26.00Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the American automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless jobs continue to ship overseas, and the retail sector faces the worst slump in decades, cries of “Buy American” have grown louder... more...
The Ride of a Lifetime
Wiley 2009; US$ 16.95Tough, smart business advice from the star of the hit TLC reality show "American Chopper" Now in paperback, The Ride of a Lifetime elucidates the business principles that have made Paul Teutul Sr. and Orange County Choppers a household name. Paul's smart, commonsense business wisdom works for businesses both big and small in any industry. Here,... more...
Punching Out
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95An elegy?angry, funny, and powerfully detailed?about the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life. How does a country dismantle a century?s worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America?s most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing,... more...
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
McGraw-Hill Education 2009; US$ 29.95"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way." --James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute "One of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking." -- The Systems Thinker This game-changing book puts... more...









