Business Climate Shifts

First published in 1999. Business Climate Shifts: Profiles of Change Makers contains a wealth of CEO wisdom about how companies today can successfully manage change in response to rapidly changing business conditions. Includes a compelling overview of the factors and forces driving rapid and often discontinuous change in business today - e.g. globalization the disruptive influence of new technologies growing electronic connectivity among far flung financial markets and the rise of e-business among others -- and assesses the short and long-term significance of these trends for the long-term viability of companies in all industries. Among the change makers profiled in this book: Lord Colin Marshall Chairman of British Airways; Robert Bauman former CEO of SmithKline Beecham; Bill Henderson U.S. Postmaster General; Jane Garvey Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration; Fred Poses President of AlliedSignal; Sir Richard Evans Chairman of British Aerospace; and Errol Marshall CEO of Shell South Africa among others.