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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
The Real American Economic Debate
October 26, 2015
The media debate regarding the American economy continues to be dominated by the flatulence of whether the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates or not and should maintain “quantitative easing” or not. The real action is thus occurring at the state and local level, which has been one of my themes for many years. Because […]
How Big Data Is Transforming Top Management
October 25, 2015
I covered a roundtable discussion on this subject and wrote my analysis for Chief Executive magazine. The bottom line is that analyzing Big Data once seemed like it would be the exclusive realm of the geeks in the IT department, but now it is turning out that even chief executives have to understand certain data […]
A New American Challenge: Managing Japan and China Relations At The Same Time
September 21, 2015
With both President Xi of China and Prime Minister Abe of Japan visiting the United States this month, it’s time to realize that for the first time in American history, we are attempting to manage relations with a strong China and a strong Japan at the same time. Since 1776, the Chinese have not been […]
A Sematech for Rare Earths?
August 27, 2015
I’m a big believer in markets but every once in a while, something happens in our economy that demands more than a pure private sector response. This article from the Wall Street Journal (below) highlights the need for such a response in one critical area of the U.S. economy–namely, the need for rare earths that […]
AT&T Is Not Your Grandfather’s Ma Bell Anymore
August 27, 2015
Repost of author’s article as written in Chief Executive magazine | August 18, 2015 by William J Holstein AT&T’s purchase of DirecTV could transform the entire phone and television industries, and serves as a lesson in digital transformation for all CEOs to watch and learn from. Usually when the CEOs of large incumbent companies launch […]
BBC and NPR do a takeout on GM in China
August 26, 2015
And who ya gonna call? That’s right. Here it is: http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-26/chinese-drivers-love-buicks-and-thats-why-gm-concerned-about-their-economy Here is an exercept from the link above: William Holstein knows all about that. He wrote the book, “Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon,” and spent time in Shanghai researching the company’s operations there. He says it’s way too […]
