"One hour with this book will make you an expert on business in China." - Dick Gephardt, Majority-Minority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives, 1989-2002
“Without question, the best 60 minutes you will spend on China.” - Jonathan Anderson, Emerging Markets Advisors 
This is the China book for everyone - whether an expert or novice. It can be read in an hour and gives you most of what you need to know about China business today - and its increasing impact on the rest of the world.
This small "speed-read" book is the distilled knowledge of two Peking University business professors with over 30 years of experience on the ground in China and the emerging markets. According to authors Jeffrey Towson and Jonathan Woetzel, "if we had the undivided attention of someone from Ohio, Brighton or Lima for just one hour, this little book is what we would say."
Author Jonathan Woetzel is a senior partner of McKinsey &amp; Company. He opened McKinsey's Shanghai location in 1995 and has been resident since then. He currently the global leader of its Cities Special Initiative and the Asia-based Director of the McKinsey Global Institute. He has led many of the Firm’s most significant projects in China including the first major international listing of a Chinese company and the development of the economic plans for the cities of Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Xian and Harbin among others. He co-chairs the Urban China Initiative along with Tsinghua University and Columbia University to catalyze the next stage of China’s urbanization.
Author Jeffrey Towson is a private equity investor, professor and best-selling author. His area of expertise is developing economy investing and cross-border strategies – primarily US-China deals in healthcare and consumer products. He was previously Head of Direct Investments for Middle East North Africa and Asia Pacific for Prince Alwaleed, nicknamed by Time magazine the “Arabian Warren Buffett” and arguably the world’s first private global investor.

The One Hour China Book: Two Peking University Professors Explain All of China Business in Six Short Stories

Business & Money

Towson, Jeffrey

Woetzel, Jonathan

International

Jeffrey Towson

Following their best-selling One Hour China Book, Peking University Professors Jonathan Woetzel and Jeffrey Towson are back to explain the rise of Chinese consumers. In this one hour "speed read", the authors argue: 1) China is now the world’s most complicated consumer market. The complexity of Chinese consumers is increasing exponentially with wealth. 2) The importance of China’s rising consumers is matched only by the brutality of the fight for them. The competition is brutal and there are far more corpses than winners. 3) The State still ultimately creates most of the winners. The authors explain all this through five short stories. They detail the successes and failures of Carlsberg, KFC, Christie’s, the NBA and others in hyper-competition consumer China. Ultimately, this book is about how Chinese consumers are finally becoming wealthy and how Western companies are finally learning to live with communism. A few key conclusions from the book: - Young Chinese are the big-spending, emotional Chinese consumers the entire world has been waiting for. - State-Owned Enterprises can compete and win in purely commercial industries. - Food scandals are good in the long-term for KFC and McDonalds. - Elderly Chinese are not the attractive demographic everyone thinks they are. - The NBA China doesn’t need another Yao Ming. - You can win big if you get to Chinese consumers AND the government. State capitalism can be exceptionally profitable. - Western China, the country’s big backyard, is the last great battleground for multinationals. And Carlsberg beer is the first clear winner. - Almost any Chinese consumer can act affluent some of the time. Something that is particularly confusing for Christie’s and Sotheby’s. - One consumer demographic everyone should care about is China’s working moms.

The One Hour China Consumer Book: Five Short Stories That Explain the Brutal Fight for One Billion Consumers

Following the success of their best-selling One Hour China Books, Peking University Professors Jonathan Woetzel and Jeffrey Towson are back with a collection of essays on China business – and to detail four things everyone is getting wrong about China. In this one hour "speed read", the authors present +30 essays that make four main contrarian points: 1) China needs smarter, not faster growth. 2) Yes, Chinese consumers are rising. But they are changing even faster. And they are disrupting everything. 3) China can innovate big time. 4) At home and abroad, Chinese companies can beat you fair and square. Author Jonathan Woetzel is a senior partner of McKinsey &amp; Company. He opened McKinsey's Shanghai location in 1995 and has been resident since then. He currently the global leader of its Cities Special Initiative and the Asia-based Director of the McKinsey Global Institute. He has led many of the Firm’s most significant projects in China including the first major international listing of a Chinese company and the development of the economic plans for the cities of Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Xian and Harbin among others. He co-chairs the Urban China Initiative. Author Jeffrey Towson is a private equity investor and advisor, professor and best-selling author. His writing and speaking are on how rising Chinese consumers (and companies) are disrupting global markets. (#consumerchina). He was previously Head of Direct Investments for Middle East North Africa and Asia Pacific for Prince Alwaleed, nicknamed by Time magazine the “Arabian Warren Buffett”.

The One Hour China Contrarian Book: Four Things Everyone Is Getting Wrong About China Business

China has matured as a marketand the game has changed. Yesterday, multinationals grappled with fundamental strategic choices: Do we go to China? Whom do we partner with? Where should we invest? Winning in China was all about achieving approval to enter the market, picking the right joint venture partner and selling in the right few cities to the right customers. Execution didn’t matter as much as privileged accessthrough government and partner relationships. Today, China is teeming with MNCs and local competitors. Government is no longer the main driver of deals. Barriers to entry have fallen. Regulations are less of a factor. Partners are no longer required in many industries. Winning now depends on great execution: effectively and efficiently developing, marketing, producing, and channeling goods to customers and growing and retaining a talent base. In Operation China, Jimmy Hexter and Jonathan Woetzel explain how you can achieve superior execution in Chinathrough operations including talent management, product development, information technology, procurement, supply-chain management, manufacturing, and sales, marketing, and distribution. Based on over two decades of consulting experience for both local and multinational operations in China and extensive research on what drives success in operating in China, this book helps you get your operations right in the new competitive arena defining China today.

Operation China: From Strategy to Execution

Hexter, Jimmy

Harvard Business Review Press

Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached, or vast new markets are conjured from nothing. Trend lines resemble saw-tooth mountain ridges. The world not only feels different. The data tell us it is different. Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Forces Breaking all the Trends is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global economy: the rise of emerging markets, the accelerating impact of technology on the natural forces of market competition, an aging world population, and accelerating flows of trade, capital and people. Our intuitions formed during a uniquely benign period for the world economy—often termed the Great Moderation. Asset prices were rising, cost of capital was falling, labour and resources were abundant, and generation after generation was growing up more prosperous than their parents. But the Great Moderation has gone. The cost of capital may rise. The price of everything from grain to steel may become more volatile. The world's labor force could shrink. Individuals, particularly those with low job skills, are at risk of growing up poorer than their parents. What sets No Ordinary Disruption apart is depth of analysis combined with lively writing informed by surprising, memorable insights that enable us to quickly grasp the disruptive forces at work. For evidence of the shift to emerging markets, consider the startling fact that, by 2025, a single regional city in China—Tianjin—will have a GDP equal to that of the Sweden, of that, in the decades ahead, half of the world's economic growth will come from 440 cities including Kumasi in Ghana or Santa Carina in Brazil that most executives today would be hard-pressed to locate on a map. What we are now seeing is no ordinary disruption but the new facts of business life— facts that require executives and leaders at all levels to reset their operating assumptions and management intuition.

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

Dobbs, Richard

Manyika, James

Economics

PublicAffairs

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The One Hour China Book: Two Peking University Professors Explain All of China Business in Six Short Stories

The One Hour China Consumer Book: Five Short Stories That Explain the Brutal Fight for One Billion Consumers

The One Hour China Contrarian Book: Four Things Everyone Is Getting Wrong About China Business

Operation China: From Strategy to Execution

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends