Profit Power Economics: A New Competitive Strategy for Creating Sustainable Wealth
"Fascinating...a very stimulating read, whether you are a business manager or someone trying to figure out the best career path."--Michael Mandel, Chief Economist,BusinessWeek"Backed by real and path-breaking economics but also full of practical implications, this fresh approach to building exceptionally successful companies will be useful to business leaders, investors, and strategists."--Jim Lawrence, Chief Financial Officer, Unilever"Profit Power Economicsdrives to the core of the key strategic challenges that confront businesses in a rapidly mutating global economy. It informs us why an abundance of information has not prevented crucial shortages of understanding."--Charles V.A. Collyns, Deputy Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund"All serious students of strategy should readProfit Power Economicsand grasp these big new ideas from Mia de Kuijper. Her concepts of transparency and power nodes are vital as business navigates new organizational forms in this era of more and better information. And her rich examples offer powerful testimony to these fascinating ideas.Profit Power Economicswill create quite a stir in strategy thinking."--Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School"A thoughtful and provocative book. Mia de Kuijper presents compelling ideas on the role of today's more complete, more immediate, and very cheap information, and how it still does not lead to rational decision making and perfect markets." --Arie de Geus, Former Corporate Planning Director, Royal Dutch Shell, author ofThe Living Company"Profit Power Economicsis extremely well written and nicely focused. I am guessing that the corporate world will find this very interesting."--Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University, author ofThe Moral Consequences of Economic Growth"Based on research and illustrated with lively lessons from the experiences of the author and other successful investors and leaders,Profit Power Economicsdraws a detailed picture of the new competitive arena and gives readers a step-by-step aproach to build (or find) exceptionally high-return enterprises."--The Daily Star, Bangladesh