The Future of Competitive Advantage : A Business Plan to Save Your Customers, Your Company, and Democracy / Doug Stephens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephens, Doug., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition--United States.

Competition.

Success in business--United States.

Success in business.

Economics--Political aspects--United States.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

[S.l.]: Wiley, 2026.

Summary:

"Government is increasingly viewed as feckless and at odds with the needs of citizens. We are faced with vanishing middle class, and consumers with unprecedented household debt, lower spending power and significantly less economic mobility than their 20th century counterparts. Domestic businesses that are essentially facades for foreign facilities, workforces and operations, leaving domestic employees high and dry, labour unions diminished in power and significant shrinking of the income tax based with which to improve society at large. And finally, businesses that are desperate for qualified, educated, and, above all, trainable workers, as fewer young people are able to afford higher or benefit from education. This book will present this reality, as dire and depressing as it may seem, as the four pillars of new competitive advantage. And that by rethinking their views and economic dependency on trusted democracy, fair-minded capitalism, domestic industrialism, and a strong education system, businesses will open up a new realm of competitive advantage. In short, business leaders who open themselves up to this new era of competition will have the potential to establish a competitive advantage over competitors that is without modern precedent"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Gilded Age Redux-and a New Beginning

Hallmarks of the Gilded Age

The Good Times Rolled Until

The Big Lie

In Gov. We Trust

The Decline of Trust

The Rise of Corporatocracy

The Grievance Industry

The Demise of Truth

The Rise of Political Tribalism and Pay-to-Play Politics

Who Do You Trust-and What It Means for Democracy

"A Dictator on Day One"

It's Time for Business

Walmart versus Main Street

The McMillon Era

Costco: The Anti-Walmart

Monopoly Money

Leveraging the Future

We Didn't Know Jack

CEO Moneyball and the Superstar Effect

Private Equity Owes a Public Debt

The Synthetic Workforce

An Ode to Capitalism

The Intelligence Recession

The Creativity Crisis: Who's to Blame?

Degrees of Debt

Doom Scrolling into Dumbness

The Human Operating System

Gilded Crisis Meets Golden Opportunity

To Go Far, Go Together

Competitive Advantage: Radical Trust

Competitive Advantage: Fairness in Action

Competitive Advantage: Collective Intelligence

Building the Future.

Notes:

Electronic book.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781394364985

OCLC:

1592623178