The Coming Internet Depression: Why the High-Tech Boom Will Go Bust, Why the Crash Will Be Worse Than You Think, and How to Prosper Afterwards

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The first journalist to herald the New Economy of the 1990s now predicts a stunning, sharp downturn: why it will happen, when it's coming, and what will happen afterward.

The economist most renowned for predicting the New Economy of the 1990s now returns-just as books like The Long Boom and Dow 36,000 are turning the idea of perpetual prosperity into conventional wisdom-to say that the dominating economic event of the next few years is likely to be a deep recession, perhaps even a depression. Michael J. Mandel begins The Coming Internet Depression by explaining why just such a depression is not only possible but increasingly likely. His explanation is based in a comparison of the present period with the 1920s: both saw tremendous growth in GDP that was largely centered on the "hypergrowth" of a single industry-automobiles in the 1920s, information technology today. When this "hypergrowth" reverts to a normal growth pattern, as the automobile industry did in 1929, the resulting overcapacity will slow down the entire economy. Mandel addresses three key questions: When will the Internet Depression start? How will we know when it's coming? How bad will it be? Finally, he shows how investors, workers, and businesses can navigate the bad times safely and prosper in the long recovery that will follow.

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This book is not as good as it needs to be.......2006-04-01

First edition read from the library:

This book is not as good as it needs to be. It does not examine technology failures and the internet and financial failure. The technology is the internet! The "how to prosper afterwards" is skant, and is just macro-economics based.

This book is packaged like it is of interest to individual readers and and maybe pop-economists, but a reader would be better served by #1 reading about the real US Depression, #2 applying what they learn about causes for zero demand, current political and financial matters, #3 figuring about terrorism, information technology stability, hardware stability, human factors.

This book does not serve it's purpose per the title and cover in my book.

Put a crystal ball in front of this guy!!!.......2002-06-22

Mandel called it before it happened.... He recognized the patterns in psychographics, world economics, technology, and the road ahead. He shows that the paradigms of the technology driven society we hastily built will need to radically change if we are to continue growing. As we are all painfully aware, we built upon the euphoria of intrinsic technology while the foundation was being eroded by weak (to non-existent) earnings and fundamental business needs. If you want to understand exactly what's going on right now and how to position yourself for the future, you will want to get this book!

Has W Become Hoover 2.......2002-04-21

Should the title be changed to "The Currant Internet Depression'? It seems likely. Mandel highlights the obvious parallels between the twenties and the nineties, and explains in detail why he expects why he the currant economic protections to ineffective and dealing with the possible collapse of the New Economy. His main thesis is that the currant economists, business leaders and government officials will be as unprepared for the tech collapse as the people of Hoover's time were for the stock crash, and for much the same reasons. Mandel believes the `New Economy' is more important even than New Economy proponents suggest, and that it's collapse will lead a general collapse by a few years. He suggests that it represents an economic shift of the magnitude that took place in the twenties with the emergence of personal credit and the spread of new technologies of the time. He does not claim, as his overconfident knee jerk critics will expect, that the collapse will happen the same way as the Great Depression. Indeed, this is the opposite of his thesis; although he does point out that the conservative economists of the twenties were just as certain that there could never again be a collapse. One ideologue I mentioned the work to dismissed it out of hand because of the SEC and the FDIC, it's this sort of overconfidence that lead to the last collapse and the inability to cope with it when it did occur. Indeed, given Congresses willingness to allow the protections installed in the thirties to lapse (allowing consolidation and cross pollination in the financial/insurance world) perhaps it WILL happen just the way that it did, especially if the knee jerk anti-government lassie fare radicals actually get their way. If anything, Mandel is to optimistic, especially when he suggests that Venture Capitalists are a hardy forward-looking bunch. Mandel's scenario, with tech layoffs leading to a crisis of consumer confidence and subsequent personal bankruptcies and an unwillingness on the part of VC's to indulge in risky spending to jump start the tech sector seems compelling, and not simply because it seems to be happening now. Is the `recession' really a `depression' and will it last as long as Mandel suggests? You can decide for your self, but you ought to read the book, if for no other reason than to understand the underlying weakness of a risk driven economy.

He is right, but just how right?.......2001-04-12

After seeing MJ Mandel again on cnbc tonight, I felt motivated to send a copy of his his book to a friend. I had first read it about 5 months ago, and am increasingly impressed by how it is playing out in real time now. It is clearly written and is a natural follow up read to Dow 64000 ( I wish ), and to 'Irrational Exuberence". The book was apparently written well before the ongoing fall of the nasdaq these past months. He presents concepts on the tech cycle and "new economy" worth considering by all, and appears to correctly emphasize the danger of too slow monitary and fiscal response to the increasing tech downturn ( come on congress and Greenspan ).His discussion of the delay between the nasdaq fall and the economy fall some year or so later appears well thought out.Hopefully the extent of the down turn he contemplates, will prove milder than he fears ;if so good. If not, this book is surely an important read for investors.

Solid book.......2001-04-03

This is a very informative, level headed look at all the current trends and what the natural result will be. And a note to all the people who decided to review it, you seem to justify the stigma that no two economists can ever agree upon anything. As Ronal Reagan said "An economist seems to me to be someone who see's something happen in practice and wonder if it could work in theory". It somehow never works in reverse.

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Exceptional book for improving results

A Must Read for CEOs Tired of Same Old Sales Excuses

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Sales & Marketing the Six Sigma Way

Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way

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Quality management. Process mapping. Speed to production. In the past 50 years, a rigorous, measurement-based methodology called Six Sigma has brought production management to previously unimaginable levels of success and sophistication. Top corporations such as Motorola and GE have built their reputations, products, and revenues using this approach. Indeed, Six Sigma has found widespread application in every significant industry and business—except marketing and sales.

In Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way, sales and quality guru Michael Webb shows how to blend marketing and sales efforts with the cutting-edge methods of Six Sigma to boost their bottom lines. With Webb’s book as a guide, readers learn to engineer rapid routes to customer value, accurately predict future revenue, and ensure return on investment for their projects.

In Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way, you will:

* Find out why ""the usual fixes"" for sales problems don't work

* Meet executives who have used Six Sigma to imrpove marketing and sales results

* See the pitfalls that await the unwary when applying process improvement in sales

* Learn how to introduce Six Sigma to sales and marketing professionals

* Discover through examples and cases how to manage sales as a process

Webb walks readers through several Six Sigma sales and marketing projects from start to finish, highlighting the tools, decisions, and results that made them successful. He shows the practical methods managers use to translate process improvement principles to the human world of selling and marketing.

With his dual background in sales and marketing management and in quality improvement, Webb speaks clearly to readers in both disciplines. This makes Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way the indispensible guide for sales and marketing professionals who want to excel in today's business environment, and for quality improvement experts who want to help them.

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Exceptional book for improving results.......2007-10-14

Whether you call it six-sigma, kaizen, lean or TQM, the concept has had a revolutionary impact in manufacturing, propelling, for example, Toyota to the top. It turns out the same basic concepts powerfully apply to sales and marketing. This book details how in a very readable manner. Webb shows us how to make sales and marketing into a process that systematically can be improved. Very insightful examples. Right now most sales and marketing decisions are made on hunch. This book helps us make them on the basis of fact. I strongly recommend it. It presents good idea after good idea.

A Must Read for CEOs Tired of Same Old Sales Excuses.......2007-08-17

This book tackles the central marketing problem of our time ....too many suspects, and an ever dwindling number of qualified prospects. Mr. Webb untangles this problem and then shows you how to design a selling system to be an ever improving "machine". A fun read with lots of how-to and examples.

It's a PE Book.......2007-07-24

It's Good to me, I work for jnj of china. it helps and leads me do the project is well

Merging Six Sigma with Sales & Marketing.......2007-07-20

Michael Webb has done a fantastic job with merging the six sigma methodology with the sales & marketing disciplines. This book takes the six sigma practice, that has long been used in the manufacturing circles, and applies it to the sales function in a way that is both concise and understandable. Six sigma promises to change the future of sales just as it has manufacturing, and this book is the road map for that journey. I would not only highly recommend this book to anyone in the sales and/or marketing arena, but consider it a must read.

Sales & Marketing the Six Sigma Way.......2007-04-03

I found this book invaluable. As a brand marketing consultant I face a barrage of misguided engineers and production minded individual who deam marketing as puffery. This book provided me a greater insight in turning these folks into marketing partners. Engineers and marketing consultants have more in common than they know - Sales & Marketing the Six Signa Way identifies how these two can and should come closer together to seek and implement the voice of the customer in establishing and marketing superior customer value.

Total Quality Service: Principles, Practices, and Implementation (St Lucie)

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Total Quality Service rises to the business challenge of the 90s. It explains in the most concise terms possible the principles of TQS. The research stands-most unhappy customers do not complain. Instead, they never again buy from businesses that just once left them unsatisfied. What then is TQS? In the simplest terms, it is the true commitment to operationalizing the concept of customer focus, establishing service performance standards, measuring performance against benchmarks, recognizing and rewarding exemplary behavior, and maintaining enthusiasm for the customer at all times. Companies that do not provide quality service not only won't compete-they won't exist. Let Total Quality Service put you and your employees on the cutting edge of customer satisfaction.

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A good place to start with DFSS
Excellent Primer for Managers and Executives
Excellent Book
OK intro for total novices but teaches you virtually nothin
Of no interest to Black Belts looking to implement DFSS

Design for Six Sigma: The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Profits
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If a company changes a design after a product launch-and not during the concept stage-implementing the changes will cost 1,000 times more. Six Sigma, the near-perfect rate of only 3.4 defects per million opportunities and the management strategy to which Jack Welch attributes GE’s phenomenal success-is on the list of all successful organizations. Even with excellent Six Sigma implementation, most companies are able to achieve only Five Sigma, which is not enough in today’s ultracompetitive marketplace. For the first time, leading quality expert and author Subir Chowdhury presents Design For Six Sigma (DFSS), a revolutionary five-step process that takes a company all the way to Six Sigma.

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A good place to start with DFSS.......2006-09-19

I would tend to agree with most of the reviewers on this book; it is a good primer for people that have not been exposed to DFSS, or for someone that has been away from DFSS for a spell and need a refresher. It is certainly worth the $12.

It is a good book, well structured and well-written. Chapter 4, "Identify and Define Opportunity" is well illustrated and explained - the "House of Quality" proves that this is not the "only way to achieve Six Sigma", as it is an illustration of the correlation between the who, what, where, when, how and how much of an initiative - the mantra of most process improvement methodologies.

What this book does really well, is bring home the point that you must design the end of the process - control - to make a process deliver what it should - performance & quality. Improvement for a reason.

This is a good quick read for management that wants a broad understanding of DFSS. However if you are looking for a book with substance and a lot of application info, consider "Design for Six Sigma : A Roadmap for Product Development." By Kai Yang and Basem EI-Haik.

Excellent Primer for Managers and Executives.......2005-11-21

This book by Quality Guru Subir Chowdhury is EXCELLENT PRIMER for managers and executives. As Mr. Chowdhury has been credited in the prestigious Industry Week magazine for introducing this new book and popularizing DFSS in the world.

I loved this book's easy style of writing and STRONGLY RECOMMEND it to anyone who wants to know what is DFSS and its applicability.

Excellent Book.......2005-06-11

Design For Six Sigma by Subir Chowdhury is the timely book on the topic. This book is about DOING RIGHT at the first time. This book is about FIRE PREVENTION rather than Fire Fighting. If American corporations want to lead the world, they MUST adopt DFSS. And to understand this complex topic, MANAGERS and LEADERS MUST READ this book. Take Chowdhury's advice very seriously. The book explains the common misconceptions about the topic and its usage of tools. By writing this valuable book, Chowdhury filled the gap for the first time.
Definitely Chowdhury's bestseller THE POWER OF SIX SIGMA is a 2 hour easy read story book, which is enjoyable and fun reading. Even though this book is written in business style, still it is fun reading. Chowdhury's style of writing excites the reader on the process.

Six Sigma Corporate Executive Champions from Caterpillar, Johns Manville, Merrill Lynch, Sunbeam, and Dow Corning highly endorsed this book. After finish reading the book, I understand why all of these Six Sigma devotees are so high on this book.

Thank you, Chowdhury!!! We look forward to your NEXT MASTERPIECE!!!

If you are serious about Six Sigma or DFSS, READ THIS BOOK. I strongly recommend it.

OK intro for total novices but teaches you virtually nothin.......2003-07-26

That book is good for a coast-to-coast flight. Has virtually no substance, can't learn anything from it. Has some value for novices. Misassigned quotes, incorrect dates, off the cuff graphs, fluffy fluff.
Borrow it from a library, do not buy for you bookshelf. If you have a backwards looking manager, buy it for him as a gift.

Of no interest to Black Belts looking to implement DFSS.......2003-04-03

This book may appeal to middle management or executive level managers who are taking a first pass at DFSS and are not familiar with Six Sigma in general. Frankly, this book is a waste to time if you are looking for a meaty how-to on how to implement design for six sigma at your company. The author keeps telling the reader about the power of DFSS but lacks the substance to get you there. It is written as if it were a lengthy abstract to another textbook.

If you want to buy a gift for your boss--you're all set.

If you want a useful reference volume on DFSS look elsewhere.

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Sales managers are under pressure as never before. Pressure to squeeze out higher revenues with less support . . . to battle increased competition in shrinking markets . . . to consolidate districts and oversee larger sales teams . . . even to take on marketing functions in addition to a busy sales agenda. In this tough new world, old approaches to sales and sales management don't work anymore. What's needed is what you'll find in this book: strategies that address the rapidly changing roles and responsibilities of today's overworked sales professionals. As a working sales manager, the author knows your challenges firsthand. He understands the demands of the balancing act that requires short-term profits as well as long-term growth. He'll show you how to:. Maneuver in the new ear . . . deal with the trust gap caused by downsizing and job insecurities . . . handle layoffs . . . and become a "renaissance sales manager". Balance people and profits . . . create and maintain high morale . . . address work/family issues . . . monitor the company's financial picture . . . review sales compensation plans . . . and build loyalty in times of uncertainty. Introduce self-management . . . implement Progressive Goal Management (PGM), which links reps' goals to corporate performance . . . appraise their work according to PGM . . . and use it to improve your own performance. Take advantage of sales management tools . . . evaluate macro management tools such as prospect databases . . . get more out of micro management tools, from call reports to long-range sales forecasts . . . and automate to save time and money. Grow sales despite harsh competition . . . get a better handle on current customers . . . uncover new leads . . . and pinpoint and correct substandard performance. Implement Total Quality Selling . . . adopt Total Quality Management methods, such as benchmarking, to gain a competitive edge . . . and make every aspect of your organization less sales-driven and more customer-focused. The author also provides a precise blueprint - a 120-Day Improvement Plan - that demonstrates his high-performance concepts in action, step by step. Seasoned with real-life sales examples and anecdotes that are certain to hit home, Building the High-Performance Sales Force will help you master the demands of today's business environment. If you're like most sales pros - forced to do more with less, but determined to thrive nonetheless - this is one sales management book you can't afford to ignore.

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Older than you think.......2000-01-13

Amazon shows this as a Feb 99 title but inside jacket indicates 1994....and it shows. Has some good tactical systems but "introduces" lead tracking software as something up-and-coming....

I would recommend SPIN Selling in lieu of this title.

These techniques make good managers great!.......1999-03-29

I've seen the benefits of working Joe Petrone's systems in the field. This book was written from his hands-on-experience, and provides valuable techniques for every manager- whether in sales or any other business capacity These techniques make good managers great!

These techniques make good managers great!.......1999-03-29

Virtual Selling: Going Beyond the Automated Sales Force to Achieve Total Sales Quality

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This is a great little book
Ultimately it takes salespeople to drive business
A good resource for those struggling to define their vision
Reasonable introduction to Sales IT issues

Virtual Selling: Going Beyond the Automated Sales Force to Achieve Total Sales Quality
Thomas M. Siebel , and Michael Malone
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The days when a salesperson could carry the company catalog around in his or her head have disappeared. From high-tech to low-tech industries, today's salesperson often represents thousands of products available in countless permutations. According to Thomas Siebel and Michael Malone, although more than 500 companies are rushing to market with information technology to aid millions of salespeople world wide, these systems are destined to fail. Why? Because, the authors argue, they focus only on improving efficiency, rather than on increasing the effectiveness of the selling process.

Instead, Siebel and Malone demonstrate the need to incorporate Sales Force Automation (SFA) within an overall philosophy that supports the sales force by fully informing sales reps to assist them in real selling, not just data recording and analysis. The authors show how this new vision, called Virtual Selling, will spearhead a new generation of SFA design to provide powerful tools -- from opportunity management systems and marketing encyclopedias to product configurations and team selling across multiple distribution channels -- which will enhance customer contact and heighten the effectiveness of the sales representative.

By assuming the larger role of "point person" at the center of every transaction, the members of what the authors call the "Informed Sales Force" will resemble independent entrepreneurs directing their own business by developing long-term customer relationships, generating proposals, managing the configuration and creation of products, and providing customer service and support. Siebel and Malone explain how this reengineering of sales can enable firms to achieve the perfect balance between the needs of sales and the operations of the rest of the company. Finally, the authors reveal how, in their equation, the Informed Sales Force uses Virtual Selling to reach Total Sales Quality, with great leads, smart pitches, irresistible closes, and above all, sales.

The potential benefits of SFA to business are enormous, from cutting costs to boosting productivity and revenue. Siebel and Malone's innovative and inspiring approach to this important subject will enable corporate managers and sales professionals in all industries to transform the virtual selling vision into reality.

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This is a great little book.......2005-10-26

Tom Siebel's focus of course is on the SFA side of sales, however this book is filled with great humor and great advice. I would recommend it to any sales person trying to improve their consultative selling approach. Siebel is of course a master salesman.

Ultimately it takes salespeople to drive business.......2004-01-28

Thomas Siebel has a great vision for what many corporate bureaucracies cloud over with endless data analysis...it takes real salespeople, on the street, selling the business to succeed. IT systems are meant to help in a number of different ways but ultimately they must exist to move sales forward and not drag them down. Siebel explains how companies can benefit from the data collection and analysis while empowering the salesforce to sell.

A good resource for those struggling to define their vision.......1998-11-26

This book is an excellent choice for individuals hell-bent on implementing sales automation without really knowing why. For those who are struggling to develop a vision for their sales automation initiative, Tom Siebel does a good job of balancing relevant historical information with real world examples and hypothetical situations. One might expect a book written by Tom Siebel to make the case for his company's own software solution, but that is not the case. Instead, Tom provides keen insight into the benefits of automation as it relates to the processes of selling and customer relationship management. Those who are have already developed and successfully articulated a clear vision for their sales automation initiative may find this book interesting, but probably of little value in moving forward. "Virtual Selling" concentrates exclusively on vision. Those looking for advice or information on the process one goes through in successfully developing and implementing a sales automation initiatve need to look elsewhere. Anyone wishing further information regarding this book, or sales automation in general, should feel free to email me at adamleft@webspan.net - Adam Lefton

Reasonable introduction to Sales IT issues.......1998-10-07

Readable book suitable for those interested in introduction to high level sales concepts and a 1995 view of anticipated impact of technology on selling.

Tqm for Sales and Marketing Management (McGraw-Hill TQM)

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Marketing and Sales Revolution

Tqm for Sales and Marketing Management (McGraw-Hill TQM)
James W. Cortada
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Marketing and Sales Revolution.......2001-05-15

Business is revolutionizing its approach to quality and, in return, is being rebolutionized.

Corporations, faced with cutthroat gloabal competition and shorter product life cycles, have been quick to embrace Total Quality Management (TQM) principles in their manufacturing processes. James W. Cortada argues in this well-written and easily understood book the coporation's customer focal points, sales and marketing departments, must play a lead role if the effort is to be successful.

Assuming the reader neither wants, nor needs, a primer on salesmanship or basic customer-oriented marketing, Cortada dispenses practical, realistic and sage advice for the executive attempting to implement a quality strategy within his marketing and sales departments.

If thre is a loud message in the book, it is change must begin immediately. The customers demand it and are willing to pay a premium for it. Balancing TQM marketing theory and tactical advice while avoiding long strings of war stories, the author guides the reader through and around many of the pitfalls leading to increased customer loyalty and repeat business -- the twin goals of any marketing organization.

Cortada suggests the quality journey begins by using the twin beacons of customer satisfaction and cycle-time reduction to look at four elements of the practitioner's sales and marketing effort -- measurements, organization, compensation and education. Although inwardly directed, they provide an opportunity to shake-down his or her quality drive before tackling the more difficult external issues.

No matter how well conceived, the author warns, the drive will be resisted. Initially, the measurements are a step to alter the behavior of your organization, he says, and will be replaced with others tied to the tactical concerns of customers. Organizational and compensation changes are required to realign resources with the new vision. Education lubricates these wheels of change.

Cortada suggest forming councils of customers and peers to trade experiences and to benchmark progress. Their support, he suggests, is vital during early stages when most employees have doubts and are insecure about what does not initially resemble old-fashioned salesmanship.

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How to create a powerful customer care program--and make it work.

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Applying Total Quality to Sales
Cas Welch , and Pete Geissler
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Written for every salesperson, manager, or executive who is concerned and motivated to improve the effectiveness of sales, marketing, and quality functions, Applying Total Quality to Sales demonstrates how to apply the principles and techniques of total quality management to the sales process and bring TQM to the realities of daily operations. Five companies are highlighted in case studies to show how they have gained competitive advantage and improved their sales processes by implementing the quality improvement precepts introduced in the authors' first book. This concise book offers practical tips on: managing, monitoring, and controlling the total quality sales process for profitable success; establishing a wide quality perspective based on the real-world experiences of five diverse organizations; measuring and lowering the total cost of the sales function with industry specific examples.

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