Author Description

Beating market pressures requires good business strategy and public policy. Business decisions impact us every day. Personal success, stability, and safety can hinge on these decisions and their outcomes. However, these decisions are often not made under the best circumstances. The Permanent Growth Environment, which is a mixture of capitalism, shareholder primacy, human nature, corporate political structure, and time pressures, can force suboptimal strategies to calamitous results for the company, employees, and society. In Revamping the Permanent Growth Environment: How Good Strategy Beats Market Pressures, learn how the Permanent Growth Environment creates decision making problems, why strategists struggle to push good decisions, how to empower strategists within an organization, and how to manage key decision-making scenarios. And for when solutions need to expand to the macro, we discuss how to best create public policy in the larger mixed economy. The book re-examines classic business cases such as New Coke, JCPenney, the XFL, Sears, and Friendster along with an in-depth review of the business practices that the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma used to create the opioid crisis. By the end, you will have a strong understanding of how to beat the Permanent Growth Environment at work and beyond. In the Amazon exclusive edition, learn how the Permanent Growth Environment has gutted traditional news media, and how to restore it.