Japan's Winning Margins: Management, Training and Education Book

This fascinating analysis aims to give the West a more balanced and realistic understanding of the key reasons for Japan's success. Japan's Winning Margins shows how the Japanese learned their industrial and technological skills from the West in the 1870s. It challenges the popular misconception that Japan is culturally so different from the West that there are limited lessons to learn from Japan's stunning industrial success. It asks, for example, how it is that the United States, with some 70,000 new MBA graduates each year is increasingly losing the commercial battle against Japan with an annual output of just 100 from their MBA courses. Written in plain and accessible language the lessons for the West are spelled out clearly: education, management concerned with developing people's potential, and relevant workplace training are the "secrets" of Japanese success. This book will be of value to those intending to do business with Japanese companies, to those thinking of visiting Japan, to those wishing to compete or even just survive, against the nation which is the world's most successful economic power.Read More