Always a Winner

Finding Your Competitive Advantage in an Up and Down Economy

by Peter Navarro

Number of pages: 240

Publisher: Wiley

BBB Library: Operations Management

ISBN: 9780470497203



About the Author

Navarro is a business professor at the University of California. His internationally recognized expertise lies in application of a unique macroeconomic analysis of the international business environment and financial markets.

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Editorial Review

In this book, you will learn to Forecast movements and key recessionary turning points in the business cycle; implement a set of powerful battle-tested strategies over the course of the business cycle; rebuild your organization with a strategic business cycle orientation and thereby make it much more recession-resistant and resilient over the longer term.

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" Always a Winner is an important and timely guide to thriving in challenging economic times. Prof. Navarro deftly bridges the academic and business communities, showing corporate leaders how to read economic tea-leaves to anticipate business cycles. His "Master Cyclist" credo offers many practical tips and real-world case studies for steering companies through turbulent economic seas." - Mark Greene, Ph.D, Chief Executive Officer, FICO (Fair Isaac Corp.)

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