Are You A Tiger A Cat Or A Dinosaur 100 Questions

Have you had questions for which you struggled to find the right answers? For example: Should I be a specialist or can I remain a generalist? Are good quality products always expensive? How does my salary compare with people in other countries? Are leaders born or created? Should political leaders be better educated or not? Is being ambitious a negative or a positive trait? There is a plethora of such questions that this book tries to answer in the most thought-provoking way. It is unputdownable and addictive. The author welcomes you into the world of competitiveness and takes you through a roller-coaster ride.   

Thirty years ago, the term competitiveness was virtually unknown. Today, it has become viral and has captured the world’s imagination. Politicians, businessmen, and media constantly refer to it. This book is an illustration of how competitiveness has changed the world and our lives by a professor who has pioneered research in this field. This book encompasses several original ideas that help to better understand how nations, companies, and people compete for prosperity. It features 100 questions answered in two pages each. The answers stress the impact of competitiveness in our daily lives using a jargon-free lucid style. 

 

Stephane Garelli is a world authority in World Competitiveness, having pioneered this new field of economics. He is Emeritus Professor of World Competitiveness both at IMD business school and the University of Lausanne and the founder of the World Competitiveness Center. A former managing director of the World Economic Forum and the Davos Annual Meetings, he was also chairman of the board of the FF Sandoz Financial and Banking Holding and a member of the Constitutional Assembly of his local state in Switzerland. He is currently chairman of the board of the Swiss newspaper Le Temps and a member of the International Olympic Commission on Sustainability and Legacy. He is the author of numerous publications on competitiveness and global business. He is well known for his series of World Competitiveness Yearbooks that highlight and rank the competitiveness of nations. He published his bestselling book Top Class Competitors: How Nations, Firms, and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness with Wiley