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An edition of Managing the Dragon (2008)

Managing the dragon

building a billion-dollar business in China

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"A wise and entertaining business memoir focusing on China at the dawn of a new age. Following a successful career on Wall Street, Jack Perkowski needed a new challenge. Having decided that China would be the future, he set about investigating this little-known market and business opportunities it offered. He set up ASIMCO." -- Provided by publisher.

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Publisher
Bantam Press
Language
English
Pages
325

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Managing the Dragon: How Im Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China
2010-03-01, Yuan Liu Chu Ban Gong Si
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Managing the Dragon: Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China
2010, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
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Managing the Dragon
2010, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Managing the Dragon
Managing the Dragon: Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China
2009, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Managing the dragon
Managing the dragon: building a billion-dollar business in China
2008, Bantam Press
in English
Cover of: Managing the Dragon
Managing the Dragon: How I'm Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China
March 18, 2008, Crown Business
Hardcover in English
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Managing the Dragon
2008, Crown Publishing Group
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.476292220951
Library of Congress
HD9710.3.C52 P47 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 325 pages
Number of pages
325

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32123461M
Internet Archive
managingdragonbu0000perk
ISBN 10
0593061691
ISBN 13
9780593061695
OCLC/WorldCat
228196499
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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The first book by a westerner who built a company in China from scratchThe emergence of China as a world economic power is one of the biggest stories of our time. Every business that intends to be an important part of the fast-changing global economy needs to know how to play the game in China. Who better to be your guide than Jack Perkowski, the pioneer who went to China in the early 1990s. Equipped with just a concept, he built a company step-by-step from the ground up--ASIMCO Technologies--that became a major player in China's fast-growing automotive business. Perkowski's story is as rich, involving, and improbable as those of nineteenth-century titans such as Rockefeller and Carnegie or of twentieth-century ones like Michael Dell and Bill Gates, but with one obvious difference: They and others built their companies when America was emerging or dominant. Perkowski built his at the dawn of the Chinese century. Perkowski's insights about the challenges and potential of western involvement in today's great Chinese expansion--gained on the ground in China itself over the past fifteen years--are of inestimable value and relevance to us all. For instance:- The good news about China: Everything is possible. The bad news: Nothing is easy.- To build a business in China, you must develop a local management team--avoiding both former bureaucrats of the state-run enterprises and the country's new breed of wildcat entrepreneurs.- You must learn the real reason why China is able to produce goods so cheaply.- Forget your notions about the Chinese economy being rigidly controlled by Beijing--it is, in fact, highly decentralized and locally driven. As the Chinese say, "The mountains are high and the emperor is far away."Perkowski tells his story with clarity, lots of humor, and a gripping sense of adventure. He takes us along on his own version of the Long March, when he visited two factories a day for nine months, hitting every province, going through endless rounds of dinners and the inevitable drinking games, and eating what seemed like every part of every animal. He vividly describes what it's like to be a westerner living and working in China and the dramatic transformation he's seen in the country, from a place left behind by the modern world to a place where a new world is being born.Filled with hard-nosed lessons for anyone with ambitions of breaking into the Chinese market, and a rich source of practical wisdom about the realities of China today, Managing the Dragon answers the questions people ask Perkowski most often about his unique experience, as well as those they never think of asking--but should.From the Hardcover edition.

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