From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives - Rilegato

Garten, Jeffrey

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ISBN 10: 1445655896 ISBN 13: 9781445655895

Casa editrice: Amberley Pub Plc, 2016

Riassunto

This is the first book to look at the history of globalization through the lens of individuals who did something transformative, as opposed to describing globalization through trends, policies, or particular industries. 'From Silk to Silicon' tells the story of who these men and women were, what they did, how they did it and how their achievements continue to shape our world today. It is history designed to provoke thinking about our world today and in the future.

Garten illuminates today’s headlines with profiles of people who were doers as much as thinkers, and who did things so transformative that echoes of their accomplishments continue to shape our world today – from Genghis Khan to John D. Rockefeller to Margaret Thatcher. Garten describes the roots of their influence, the key historical trends that enveloped them, and their relevance today and for the future.

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This is a tale of globalisation and leadership that is both sweeping and personal. By focusing on ten transformational people, it shows how individuals can affect the flow of history. It s a guide to the future as well as the past. (Walter Isaacson author of 'Steve Jobs')

Impressive, fascinating, and very creative. Garten draws on decades of experience in the modern world economy. He not only brings the creation of our present world into focus but also widens our understanding of how the world may well evolve in the future. (Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize, The Quest and co-author of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy)

From Silk to Silicon creatively combines the impersonal forces of globalisation with the very personal faces of biography in an engaging and thought-provoking story. Ranging over eight centuries of empires, exploration and enterprise, Garten s colourful histories portray how willpower and persistence can propel societies to new achievements and he says the best is yet to come. (Robert B. Zoellick, former President of the World Bank) --Walter Isaacson

A tour-de-force imaginative, informative, and just plain fun to read. (Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State) --Strobe Talbot

From Silk to Silicon is a most nifty work, as well as being serious history. Garten persuasively shows how, in the broad unfolding events that brought us from the Dark Ages to the twenty-first century, individuals really did make their own history and changed things irrevocably. Here are case studies for business school, lessons for CEOs, and a good read for the rest of us. (Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers) --Paul Kennedy

L'autore

Jeffrey Garten teaches on the global economy at the Yale School of Management, where he was formerly the dean. He has also held senior positions in the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as having been a managing director on Wall Street. He is the author of four previous books on the global economy and has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek and the Harvard Business Review.

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• Editore: Amberley Pub Plc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1445655896
• ISBN 13: 9781445655895
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 464