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

Garten, Jeffrey E.

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ISBN 10 : 1445655896 ISBN 13 : 9781445655895

Editeur : Amberley Publishing, 2016

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The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments.

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. They include:

• Genghis Khan, who united east and west by conquest and by opening new trade routes built on groundbreaking transportation, communications, and management innovations.

• Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who arose from an oppressive Jewish ghetto to establish the most powerful bank the world has seen, and ushered in an era of global finance.

• Cyrus Field, who became the father of global communications by leading the effort to build the transatlantic telegraph, the forerunner to global radio, TV, and the worldwide Internet.

• Margaret Thatcher, whose controversial policies opened the gusher of substantially free markets that linked economies across borders.

• Andy Grove, a Hungarian refugee from the Nazis who built the company—Intel—that figured out how to manufacture complex computer chips on a mass, commercial scale and laid the foundation for Silicon Valley’s computer revolution.

Through these stories Jeffrey E. Garten finds the common links between these figure and probes critical questions including: How much influence can any one person have in fundamentally changing the world? And how have past trends in globalization affected the present and how will they shape the future? From Silk to Silicon is an essential book to understanding the past—and the future—of the most powerful force of our times.

Revue de presse

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Amberley Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1445655896
• ISBN 13: 9781445655895
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464