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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change Series)
Clayton M. Christensen Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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What do the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and hydraulic excavators have in common? They are all examples of disruptive technologies that helped to redefine the competitive landscape of their respective markets. These products did not come about as the result of successful companies carrying out sound business practices in established markets. In The Innovator's Dilemma, author Clayton M. Christensen shows how these and other products cut into the low end of the marketplace and eventually evolved to displace high-end competitors and their reigning technologies.At the heart of The Innovator's Dilemma is how a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat. Christensen writes that even the best-managed companies, in spite of their attention to customers and continual investment in new technology, are susceptible to failure no matter what the industry, be it hard drives or consumer retailing. Succinct and clearly written, The Innovator's Dilemma is an important book that belongs on every manager's bookshelf. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards
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The Innovator's Dilemma demonstrates why outstanding companies that had their competitive antennae up, listened astutely to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies still lost their market dominance. Drawing on patterns of innovation in a variety of industries, the author argues that good business practices can, nevertheless, weaken a great firm. He shows how truly important, breakthrough innovations are often initially rejected by customers that cannot currently use them, leading firms to allow their most important innovations to languish. Many companies now face the innovator's dilemma. Keeping close to customers is critical for current success. But long-term growth and profits depend upon a very different managerial formula. This book will help managers see the changes that may be coming their way and will show them how to respond for success. The Management of Innovation and Change Series.Download Description
Revised, updated, and with a new chapter, this book continues to take the radical position that great companies can fail precisely because they do everything right. It demonstrates why outstanding companies lose their market leadership when confronted with disruptive technology--and it explains how to avoid a similar fate. Drawing on insights from a number of industries--such as the computer and disk drive industries, discount retailing, minimills, pharmaceuticals, and the automobile industry--Christensen shows why good management often turns out to be all wrong--and what to do about it.Customer Reviews:
No Dilemma Here.......2007-08-18
A disruptive view on innovation.......2007-08-09
Repetitive.......2007-06-23
Business calssic.......2007-06-17
just great book.......2007-05-12
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The Innovator's Dilemma : When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (The Management of Innovation and Change Ser.)
Clayton M. Christensen Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PJVA50 |
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A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present
David F. Burg Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415924987 |
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A World History of Tax Rebellions is an exhaustive reference source for over 4,300 years of riots, rebellions, protests, and war triggered by abusive taxation and tax collecting systems around the world. Each of the chronologically arranged entries focuses on a specific historical event, analyzing its roots, and socio-economic context. Readers can visit familiar uprisings like the Boston Tea Party, while discovering lesser-known events such as the Mauritanian Rebellion in fourth-century Africa, the Marriage Aid Protest in medieval France, and the 1765 Rebellion of the Barrios in Ecuador. A separate A-to-Z biographical section introduces revolt leaders, activists, and other personalities that make up the full, and often painful, history of taxation.
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Those Dirty Rotten taxes: The Tax Revolts that Built America
Charles Adams Manufacturer: Touchstone ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Adams, an independent scholar affiliated with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., has produced a breezy account of tax revolt in American history, from the Stamp Act to the present day. Although there is scarce opportunity in the book's 242 pages to delve into the details of such pivotal events in early American history as Shay's Rebellion and the collapse of the Federalist Party, Adams does consistently manage to choose those details which best support his thesis that "excessive" taxation is a form of government tyranny. This leads to interesting interpretations of history such as his sympathetic description of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan as an underground resistance movement against federal tax collectors. Adams also provides a full litany of charges of present-day assaults on liberty by the IRS. There is throughout a certain sense of preaching to the choir, quite understandable given the subject matter. However, those who pick up the book not thoroughly convinced that taxes are at best a necessary evil might welcome more history and less rhetoric.Book Description
In 1798, after Congress had passed its first direct tax on houses, the government cooked up a scheme to count and measure the windows on every taxpayer's house, in order to calculate how much to charge. But German settlers in eastern Pennsylvania would have none of it. They organized into small bands, armed themselves, and scoured the countryside for assessors who were seized, assaulted, and driven across county lines. When some of the rebels were arrested, an auctioneer named John Fries marched on the courthouse and freed them. President John Adams called out the militia. Fries was arrested, tried for treason, and sentenced to be hanged.
It was hardly the first tax revolt in American history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Whiskey Rebellion to the Fries Rebellion, the late eighteenth century in America was full of armed violence in response to hated taxes. Yet, as Charles Adams recounts in this remarkable book, the Fries Rebellion was also far from the last of its kind.
Throughout its history America has been home to a series of little-known tax rebellions. These rebellions have played major roles in the presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and many of their successors. They have helped bring about the Civil war, the birth of the Ku Klux Klan, and, ironically, the birth of the Internal Revenue Service. When the old Internal Revenue Bureau was strengthened to control moonshiner tax rebels in the Appalachias, it started a "Second Whiskey Rebellion" that continues even today. Country singer George Jones' popular ballad recalls:
G-Men, T-Men, Revenuers too, looking for the place where my pappy made his brew.
Today, as long-overdue calls for abolishing or overhauling the IRS are finally being heard in the halls of Congress, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes teaches us that we are continuing a long and vitally important American tradition. We have overthrown the tyranny of British taxes, Federalists' taxes, the Tariff, and the Revenuers' system. Has the tyranny of the Income Tax finally had its day?
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Biased presentation of Adam Smith and Thomas Paine.......2007-03-25
The Only Certain Things in Life: Taxes, and more Taxes.......2006-05-26
Entertaining vignettes of citizens resisting the taxman.......2004-08-15
Not too good.......2001-04-25
one of the best histories I've read in a while.......2000-02-16
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Win your personal tax revolt
Bill Greene Manufacturer: Distributed by Putnam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0936602104 |
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a useful, but dated book.......2000-06-23
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Tax Revolt: The Rebellion Against an Overbearing, Bloated, Arrogant, and Abusive Government
Phil Valentine Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1595550011 |
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Ever since the Boston Tea Party, courageous and patriotic citizens have rebelled against the government's overbearing and abusive taxation of its constituents. This book is the powerful rallying cry to all Americans to continue to fight against our ever-increasing taxes. Using as a touchstone the heroic incident in Tennessee, when citizens converged on the state capitol to protest and repeatedly beat back attempts to pass a state tax, Valentine weaves an inspiring story of how patriotic citizens have stood up to taxes in the past, how many intrepid constituents continue to fight, and how Americans should resist and even revolt against taxes on a state and national level. By exploring the crippling effects of taxes on our economy and the lives of each individual citizen and drawing from the stories of other revolts (with exclusive behind-the-scenes details about the Tennessee rebellion), Valentine will anger and incite readers to action, giving them the motivation and know-how to spread the word and activate a powerful new revolution.Customer Reviews:
Interesting from political and historical perspective.......2005-05-26
Inspiration from a brilliant writer and speaker.......2005-03-26
Power to the People-YOU can make a difference.......2005-03-11
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Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13
Arthur O'Sullivan , Terri A. Sexton , and Steven M. Sheffrin Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521035996 |
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Property tax revolts have occurred both in the United States and abroad. This book examines the causes and consequences of property tax revolts, focusing on California's experience with Proposition 13. New theoretical approaches and evidence from a comprehensive empirical study are used to highlight the equity and efficiency of property tax systems. Since property taxes are local government's main revenue source, the book includes a comparative study of the evolution of local government following property tax limitations in several states. Finally, the book considers alternatives for reform and lessons to avoid future revolts.
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Crisis: The taxpayer revolt and your kids' schools
Efrem Sigel Manufacturer: Knowledge Industry Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0914236288 |
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I'm Mad As Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and Its Leader
Howard Jarvis , and Robert Pack Manufacturer: Times Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0812908589 |
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The Story of His Campaign and Life.......2002-05-21
Since 1945 land prices and property taxes were booming in California. After his 1962 retirement, HJ began his involvement with the United Organization of Taxpayers. [A movement needs a cadre of dedicated workers.] It then affiliated with other organizations, and thousands of volunteers from all over the state. [The movement must be represented in all counties.] It is very important to have unity and loyalty to the group. [Fragmentation, petty quarrels, and demoralization should be avoided.] They experienced many defeats. [Expect to lose many battles before final victory.] Proposition 13 cut property taxes in half (p.9)! This set an example for the other states (p.10). It could never have been achieved without the Initiative & Referendum law in Calif. But an organization can pass around a petition and get tens of thousands of signatures. Even if it has no legal effect it will impress and scare elected officials. Calif. passed an initiative and referendum law in 1911, an extension to the right of petition. This allows the people to write a law and bypass corrupt state politicians. Without the right to petition, Proposition 13 would not have been passed.
Chapters One thru Seven tell of the work by this movement. 64,000 tax-exempt corporations and 18,000 charitable trusts paid no property taxes. Most of them were set up to get a tax break! Towns would raise assessments one year, then the tax rate the next (p.28). The enormous increases in property taxes priced young couples out of the market. And older people had lowered incomes.
Chapter 8 is his autobiography. He was born and raised in Utah. His father was a carpenter who studied law and became a judge. HJ studied law at the University of Utah by day and worked at a mill by night. He taught boxing in college, and fought as a professional. HJ also played semipro baseball for a copper mill (p.209). He had a varied and interesting life as a newspaper publisher, and then as a manufacturer. Pages 256-7 tell of his legal experiences with the patent on radio push-button tuning; they lost out to big corporations due to high level political decisions. He was part of the group that ran an ad for a Congressional candidate - they decided on "the guy in the sailor suit" (p.263).
Chapter Nine lists his political ideas. He advocates elimination all property taxes, and using income taxes (ability to pay), sales taxes (with some exemptions), and "other forms of taxes". HJ would encourage more public participation in the public business of government. He recommends limiting the size of government to limit the power of politicians. Public schools should be overhauled to create a better product. HJ wants more personal savings to replace the Social Security system. He also wants the US to have the most powerful military in the world, but doesn't want foreign entanglements.
A fine story about much more than just a tax revolt.......2000-04-03
I have just one advice to the readers of this book. The idea of forcing the hated clique of parasite politicians and civil servants on their knees might seem very attractive to you. However, I read lately that both Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann got killed under mysterious circumstances shortly after their triumph with the tax proposal. I don't know if it's true or not, but my advice would still be to avoid confronting governments openly. (Read "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" by Harry Browne to learn more about this subject.)
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America's coming tax revolt
Manufacturer: Parrot Communications Int'l ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1882438000 |
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America's Coming Tax Revolt takes a unique look at what has gone wrong with America's tax system and what is being done about it. Most importantly, the book shows how America can combat its ever-rising tax burden, reform its tax system, restore sanity to its government's budgeting process, and prevent the financial calamities that lie ahead if America does not address its problems by reigning in the unchecked growth in government spending and completely overhauling its existing tax system.
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Bill Greene's Welcome to the Tax Revolt
Bill Greene Manufacturer: Mill Valley, Calif.: Aunt Tilly, Ltd. 1980 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UTGTEM |
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California and the American Tax Revolt: Proposition 13 Five Years Later
Terry Schwadron Manufacturer: Univ of California Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0520051599 |
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