Kenichi Ohmae
Autor von The Mind of the Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business
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Kenichi Ohmae is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UCLA. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Korea University and Professor Emeritus at Ewha Women's University in Korea, Trustee and Adjunct Professor of Bond University in Australia, as well as Dean of Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of mehr anzeigen Management of BBT University in Japan. In September 2002, he was named the advisor of Liaoning Province and Tianjin City in China. weniger anzeigen
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The Evolving Global Economy: Making Sense of the New World Order (Harvard Business Review Book) (1995) 10 Exemplare
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I am sure that Kenichi Ohmae knows more about economics than I ever will. His assumption that the world totally revolves around the desire for profit is, however, naïve. Of course, it is easy to laugh at a theory which time has downed, but this book shows no understanding of human nature. It is frightening that, at the time, this was taken as a serious view as to where the world was going.
Fortunately, the idea of an ever improving GDP is rapidly becoming an outdated concept. I have personally heard people who dare not come out publicly, admit that this is a preposterous idea: what can you name which grows for eternity - even the universe, under the Big Bang Theory, is going to go into reverse (hopefully at some far, far off date!).
This book was written at the time when computers, and particularly that new fangled World Wide Web, was going to save the planet. National governments were unnecessary, the fall of the Soviet Union meant no more wars (!), and computer power could balance the risks in any transaction. Financial heaven had arrived: we could all make our own decisions as to how we became millionaires and buy more and more rubbish.
Oh dear, another questionable Utopia bites the dust.… (mehr)