Mendenhall Glacier: A river of ice

Foster, Scott

ALASKA NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION

Japan’s economy is the world’s third-largest and second–most-sophisticated, accounting for nearly 10% of global economic activity. It has the lowest unemployment rate among leading industrial nations and, at the same time, a large and growing manufacturing presence around the world. Yet it has frequently been portrayed as an economic disaster — an Asian Greece or Argentina — on the verge of collapse and threatening to take down the world economy with it. This view of Japan, long promulgated by Western media, is utterly wrong. By using Japan’s own plans and metrics, and finding the deeper story behind the country’s powerful “InfoMerc” business model, Stealth Japan reveals an economic success story different from, and often more successful than, that of Western countries. Unlike China, Japan has a modern, well-established legal system that increasingly protects contracts and intellectual property. The forced technology transfers of the last century have been replaced with an offshore-export–driven Japan that is nearly invisible to the rest of the world — a fact not lost on the country’s leaders. For decades, as the media has focused on internal GDP and demographic figures, Japan’s business and political leaders have continued to favor the export-driven economics central to their post-WWII planning. In almost every respect, these plans have now succeeded: today’s Japan is both onshore and offshore, its workers both Japanese and foreign, its production worldwide, and its income both domestic and in countries beyond GDP calculations. How large is Stealth Japan’s economy today? Perhaps no one knows, but readers of Stealth Japan: The Surprise Success of the World’s First InfoMerc Economy will quickly discover the unexpected scale and details behind this dramatic success.

Stealth Japan: The Surprise Success of the World's First Infomerc Economy

Business & Money

International

Strategic News Service

Accountable. Compassionate. Visionary. These are the characteristics of a great leader; and, in Leading Your Agency to Greatness, two leadership and insurance experts invite you to leap into the pursuit of greatness with both feet. This book empowers you to optimize your company’s infrastructure and service, while leaving a leadership legacy within your agency that is worthy of emulation. And it all begins with self-assessment. How do you rate as an agency leader? What are your strengths and weaknesses? Are you already a superb leader or do you have some work to do? Either way, the roadmap to reaching your potential is laid out in these pages—all that is left is to act! Learn how to be purposeful, make difficult choices, assemble a dream team, and move on from goal setting to goal getting. Understand the vital differences between motivating and inspiring, and knowing and doing. Realize that true success is not the result of big egos and dollar signs but self-discipline and premier customer service. Scott Foster and Dick Biggs’s combined leadership experience nearly reaches a century of success, but their strategies only work if you do. So study their advice. Act on it. And most importantly, enjoy the pursuit of agency greatness!

Leading Your Insurance Agency To Greatness: Based on: The Five Tiers Of Agency Leadership

Biggs, Dick

Insurance

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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