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No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends Audiobook, by Richard Dobbs Play Audiobook Sample

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends Audiobook

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Read By: Grover Gardner Publisher: Recorded Books: Gildan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2015 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781469061610

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

12

Longest Chapter Length:

54:10 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

18:11 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

41:30 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst onto the scene, when businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached, or when vast new markets are conjured from nothing. Trend lines resemble sawtooth mountain ridges. The world not only feels different, the data tells us it is different.

Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global economy: the rise of emerging markets, the accelerating impact of technology on the natural forces of market competition, an aging world population, and accelerating flows of trade, capital, and people.

Our intuitions formed during a uniquely benign period for the world economy—often termed the Great Moderation. Asset prices were rising, the cost of capital was falling, labor and resources were abundant, and generation after generation was growing up more prosperous than their parents. But the Great Moderation is gone; the cost of capital may rise, the price of everything from grain to steel may become more volatile, the world’s labor force could shrink, and individuals, particularly those with low job skills, are at risk of growing up poorer than their parents.

What sets No Ordinary Disruption apart is depth of analysis combined with lively writing informed by surprising, memorable insights that enable us to quickly grasp the disruptive forces at work. For evidence of the shift to emerging markets, consider the startling fact that by 2025 a single regional city in China—Tianjin—will have a GDP equal to that of Sweden. In the decades ahead, half of the world’s economic growth will come from 440 cities, including Kumasi in Ghana and Santa Carina in Brazil—cities that most executives today would be hard-pressed to locate on a map.

What we are now seeing is no ordinary disruption but the new facts of business life—facts that require executives and leaders at all levels to reset their operating assumptions and management intuition.

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“Danger! Opportunity!…Libertarians may squall, but investors just beginning to look at emerging market trends may find value in this book.”

— Kirkus Reviews

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  • “An intriguing work for those interested in the business impacts of globalization.”

    — Library Journal
  • “A compelling and rigorous illustration of how the pace of change in the last two decades has grown by orders of magnitude.”

    — Andrew Mackenzie, CEO, BHP Billiton

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About the Authors

Richard Dobbs, based in London, has led research on global economic trends, including urbanization, resource markets, capital markets, lifestyle diseases, productivity, and growth. He is a coauthor of Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance and has taught at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.

Dr. James Manyika, based in Silicon Valley since 1994, has led research on the global economy, disruptive technologies, the digital economy, and productivity. He is the author of a book on robotics as well as technical and business articles. He was appointed by President Obama as the vice chair of the president’s Global Development Council. He is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and is on advisory boards of Harvard, Berkeley, and Oxford, where he was a research fellow.

Dr. Jonathan Woetzel, based in China, has led research on urbanization, the global economy, sustainability, and productivity. He also leads McKinsey’s Cities Special Initiative and is cochair of the Urban China Initiative. He has authored four books on China, most recently The One Hour China Book, and is an adjunct professor at the China Europe International Business School.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.