Global America: Understanding Global and Economic Trends and How To Ensure Competitiveness

by John Manzella

Overview

John Manzella, recognized author, speaker and global business consultant, shares his inside perspective on the complex challenges that face America in the domestic and global arena. Get a glimpse of which events cause powerful chain reactions and how they will ultimately impact and shape our future, including new destructive technologies, the rise of China, worsening skills deficit, economic volatility, manufacturing trends, U.S. energy revolution, dysfunctional governments, and the poisoning of America's "Secret Sauce." This book will help you connect the dots between today's economic trends and resulting challenges in a very easy-to-understand, straightforward and relatable format. Offering key strategies to boost competitiveness, Global America is an essential guide for business professionals, stock investors, journalists, educators, and students and their parents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780926566019
Publisher:	Manzella Trade Communications, Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/2015
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter One: The Perils of Growing Up in a High-Tech World
- The Impact of New Technologies
- The Death of Distance
-Technological Literacy and Millennials
- The Worsening Knowledge Crisis

Chapter Two: Jobs, Education and the Right Stuff
- What We Can Learn from Current Unemployment Data
- Preparing Our Youth for the Global Battle Ahead
- Finding and Retaining the Best Employees

Chapter Three: The Direction of Economic Growth
- New Innovative Drivers
- Consumer Confidence and Spending
- Government Dysfunction
- European and Emerging Markets
- Black Swans and Forecasting Limitations

Chapter Four: U.S. Production and Abundant Energy
- The Truth About American Manufacturing
-Backshoring and the Impact of Investing Abroad
- The Impact of the American Energy Revolution

Chapter Five: Globalization Is Like Fire
- The Benefits and Challenges of Global Economic Integration
- The Dangers of Closing Economies and What To Do
- The Middle East's Real Problem
- What We Can Learn from Demographic Trends
- Currency Assumptions Are No Longer Valid

Chapter Six: The North American Bloc
- The NAFTA Results Are In... Finally
- U.S.-Canadian Economic Integration
- The Direction of the U.S.-Mexican Partnership

Chapter Seven: The Future of a U.S.-China Dominated World
- China in Transition
- Stability Is Job One
- Is China an Innovator?
- Friends Can Achieve More than Adversaries

Chapter Eight: Strategies That Work
-Hidden Risks and International Strategies
- How to Boost Efficiencies and Prevent Supply Chain Disasters
- Financing Global Supply Chain Activities
- The Importance of Understanding Culture

Chapter Nine: America's Secret Sauce
- The Ingredients
- Policies That Work
- Too Big To Succeed
- Decisions We Must Make

Appendix: Ways To Stir the Secret Sauce
- How to Educate Policymakers
- How to Communicate the Message

Editorial Reviews

"Global America will give you a no-holds-barred view of the near and long-term effects of some of the most recent economic trends today. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the new complex global factors and drivers of productivity and prosperity."
- Barbara Osterman, Founder and Owner of Human Solutions LLC.

"John Manzella presents a cogent, comprehensive picture of the emerging demographic and economic trends shaping the future of globalization and offers smart policy recommendations and business strategies for competing successfully in a rapidly changing international environment."
- Daniel Ikenson, Director of The Cato Institute's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies

"John Manzella has written a thought provoking book that explores the many perils that exist in the international business landscape, how they remain in a state of constant change, and reminds us how important it is to remain fluent in current affairs in order to stay a step ahead of that change. Any business person actively engaged in international business would benefit from reading this book."
- Daniel Wagner, CEO of Country Risk Solutions and Author of Managing Country Risk

"Manzella's Global America is an eminently readable and realistic analysis and appraisal of America in the future global economy. While policy is never far from the main discourse, the cherry on the Sundae is his ability to single out key trends and make them meaningful to each us whether we are involved with marketing goods, managing supply chains, investing our savings, or raising our children."
- Larry Davidson, Professor Emeritus of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business

"John Manzella's book Global America is just the right antidote for the misguided belief that Americans cannot prosper in a global economy. Based on thorough research and his years of experience in global consulting, Manzella explodes myth after myth about such charged topics as immigration, NAFTA, and trade with China. His prescription of more open markets, property rights, the rule of law, and education and tax reform points to a brighter future."
- Daniel Griswold, President of the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones

"In Global America, John does an excellent job of providing a timely snapshot of America's competitive position vis-a-vis the global economy - 15 years into the 21st century. This book provides an island of context in an all too temporal sea of tweets and spin."
- Greg Sandler, President of ThinkGlobal Inc.

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