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This guide to corporate expansion planning shares the
insights of a veteran leader of global business site selection consulting
for location choices by corporate executives.
Marcel was the founder of Plant
Location International in Brussels, and has assisted many leading
corporations with their expansion plans around the world.
Exporting America : Why Corporate Greed is Shipping American
Jobs Overseas
This highly respected business news anchor attracted a lot of
attention during the 2003-2004 period leading up to the US elections through
his criticism of business outsourcing in a very popular feature series,
"Exporting America".
Whether one agrees with all his
analysis and conclusions or not, it is an important contribution to the need
for a more informed debate on not only the public policy and long-term
social and economic impacts of outsourcing and globalization in general, but
also the role of corporate leaders and their business and social
responsibilities.
The basic premise is that outsourcing jobs to other
countries will ultimately be harmful to American interests despite any
short-term business cost savings.
Lou Dobbs, anchor and managing editor of CNN "Lou Dobbs
tonight", and popular feature stories on "Exporting America"
Some reports indicated that he was attracting around 500,000
viewers per day to his show.
Whatever the actual show ratings, clearly this special
feature had an impact and resonated with many viewers as a very hot topic
during the US election in particular.
This book also attracted many very
thoughtful Amazon.com reviewer comments.
It's interesting that the ones which agreed with Dobbs'
basic premise and analysis seemed to give more thoughtful reviews, while
some of his critics just bashed his position or the book without much
substance. That is, frankly, consistent with what he already reported
from viewer and business editor reactions to his programs. Then again,
maybe some very smart but now unemployed people just had more time and
inclination to review his shows and the book.
Running on Empty : How the Democratic and Republican Parties
are Bankrupting our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Argues that both parties are following very misguided
economic and trade policies with serious future economic consequences.
Again, one doesn't have to agree in total to respect some of the analysis.
Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in
the Age of the Internet
0887309712
Whether or not one agrees with all of Geoffrey Moore's
pronouncements about competition in high-tech industries, it is an
interesting and influential point of view
Geoffrey Moore
2003
Bruce Donnelly
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products
to Mainstream Customers
0066620023
Geoffrey Moore, Regis McKenna
1999
Bruce Donnelly
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon
Valley's Cutting Edge
0887307655
Geoffrey Moore
1995
Bruce Donnelly
The Gorilla Game: Picking Winners in High Technology
0887309577
Geoffrey Moore et al
1999
Bruce Donnelly
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others
Don't
0066620996
Jim Collins
2001
Bruce Donnelly
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
0609610570
Larry Bossidy
2002
Bruce Donnelly
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
0060516402
James Collins, Jerry Porras
2002
Bruce Donnelly
The Innovator's Dilemma
0066620694
The impact of disruptive innovation on market leaders
Clayton Christensen
2000
Bruce Donnelly
Only the Paranoid Survive : How to Exploit The Crisis Points
That Challenge Every Company
0385483821
Still timely thoughts about "inflection points" and other
challenges
Andrew Grove
1999
Bruce Donnelly
Jack : Straight from the Gut
0446528382
Jack Welch
2001
Bruce Donnelly
Managing in the Next Society
0312289774
A collection of articles, alleged to be his last book
Peter Drucker
2002
Bruce Donnelly
The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years
of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
0066210879
Or, you can collect the original bookshelf
Peter Drucker
2001
Bruce Donnelly
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest
Managers Do Differently
0684852861
Marcus Buckingham
1999
Bruce Donnelly
Geeks and Geezers
1578515823
About leadership, strategic change, adaptive behavior in
response to challenges. Robert Thomas is a senior fellow at
Accenture's Institute for Strategic Change.
Written by consultants who deal with organizational change,
such as post M&A merger integration work to try to make the intended
synergies actually happen
Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team
1996
Bruce Donnelly - formerly employed by Price Waterhouse
consultants
The Paradox Principles: How High Performance Companies Manage
Chaos Complexity and Contradiction to Achieve Superior Results
0786304995
See above. Made it less complex, better?
Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team
1995
Bruce Donnelly - formerly employed by Price Waterhouse
consultants
Managing the Change Process: A Field Book for Change Agents,
Team Leaders, and Reengineering Managers
0070129444
Similar issues about the organizational change process, in
this case from the Coopers & Lybrand side (before the merger which created
PricewaterhouseCoopers, which gave them all a chance to practice in-house)
David Carr et al
1995
Bruce Donnelly
Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership
0684830442
Richard Farson
1997
Bruce Donnelly
Straight from the CEO : The World's Top Leaders Reveal Ideas
That Every Manager Can Use
Articles by prominent CEO's, including Ken Lay's (Enron)
perspective on the future of the energy industry - plus Eckhard Pfeiffer of
Compaq on how companies need a culture of continuous renewal - interesting
in hindsight. Plus some other perspectives on globalization and other
leadership issues.
Price Waterhouse - editors William Dauphinais, Colin Price
1998
Bruce Donnelly-
formerly employed by PwC, represented their global location consultants
Meta-Capitalism : The E-Business Revolution and the Design of
21st Century Companies and Markets
PricewaterhouseCoopers book by leading partners in the
Strategic Change practice. Note the concept of value-added communities
or MetaMarkets, which is more than a thinly-veiled pitch for their services,
which are now part of IBM Business Consulting Services.
They were trying to define how "e-businesses" and markets
will evolve, and can be forgiven if some of their analysis reflects the late
1990's tech bubble and even a dubious assertion in the epilogue that
location doesn't matter. Just because companies have greater
flexibility to go anywhere, or to outsource some functions, doesn't mean
that the choices and risks of business locations and configuration
strategies no longer matter, as some firms already discovered when their
partners went bust.
Grady Means, and David Schneider of PwC Consulting
2000
Bruce Donnelly-
formerly employed by PwC, represented their global location consultants
The Art of the Long View
Still useful insights into dealing with uncertain futures in
planning
Peter Schwartz
1991
Bruce Donnelly
Scenarios - The Art of Strategic Conversation
Same basic premise as Peter Schwartz; co-founder of company
with him, Global Business Network
Information on 120 countries; there is also a separate book
on individual international tax consideration
PricewaterhouseCoopers
2003
Bruce Donnelly
CFO : Architect of the Corporation's Future
By Financial & Cost Management practice prior to merger with
Coopers & Lybrand; ignored this niche completely as if outsourcing is main
strategy; interesting in hindsight
Price Waterhouse
1997
Bruce Donnelly -
formerly employed by Price Waterhouse (later PwC), represented their global
location consultants
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