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BOOK WORLD
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6 / 1986 |
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Lewis Austin
Lewis Austin is research analyst for the Beacon Hill
Multicultural Psychological Association. He is the author of
Japan: The Paradox of Progress and Saints and Samurai: The
Politics and Culture of the Japanese and American Elite. He
has worked in Japan as a banker and a social scientist, and
has taught at Yale and the University of California. |
LEADERS
The Strategies for Taking Charge
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus
New York: Harper and Row, 1986
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Power Politics and the Pursuit of Trust
Samuel Culbert and John McDonough
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The New Heroes of American Business
Charles Garfield
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1986
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Calvin Coolidge said that the business of America was business, and he could have gone on to say--if he had been a wordier person--that business was also America's sweet-heart, it sport, its life-style, and its supreme arbiter of values. Americans value production, accomplishment, and winning, and if these can't be expressed in dollars and cents we find them unconvincing. This has been, and continues to be, a great way to run a country, and it produces accomplishments, wins, and millionaires like no other sport in the world. But the game is getting tougher, and it's getting harder to win.
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