Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations

by Richard Elkus

Overview

Over the past thirty years, the United States has lost commanding leads in business after business. We no longer make cameras, TVs, MP3 players, cell phones, or DVD players, and we have become the world's largest debtor nation. Everyone thinks this is because of cheap labor costs, but in fact Asian leaders have a fundamental and different way of thinking about business. They are playing a different game. If the U.S. wants to regain its competitiveness and preserve its global power, it must play the game as it's played in the rest of the world. Winner Take All tells us what it takes to be competitive, and how we need to reform our thinking to regain what we have lost. Richard Elkus isn't't afraid to bring a few sacred cows to the slaughter. This is the essential primer for any policy maker, business leader, or general reader interested in knowing how America can regain the economic clout it once had.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786748556
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	06/16/2009
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	343 KB

About the Author

Richard Elkus has been chief executive or on the board of directors of over fifteen different high-technology companies, as well as a board member of the University of California President's Board of Science and Innovation, Scripps Research Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Economic Strategy Institute, the American Electronics Association, and many other organizations. Winner Take All is his first book. He lives in Atherton, California.

Table of Contents

Preface     ix
Introduction: The Great Giveaway     1
Replay     27
Convergence     49
Evolution, Part 1     77
Evolution, Part 2     95
Chasing the Rainbow: The Cost of Infrastructure     123
Education and Competitiveness: The Vicious and Virtuous Circle     157
It's Not about the Picture: The Case of HDTV     179
Winners and Losers     205
Failure Is Not an Option     223
Acknowledgments     245
Notes     247
Index     257