Free Market Fusion

By Glenn R. Jones

"Free Market Fusion" examines the unique, successful relationships that can be formed when entrepreneurs and innovative nonprofit managers join in partnerships to pursue common goals. Often referred... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885400683
• ISBN13: 9781885400680
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Cyber Pub Group Inc
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

many important themes

A must read book for lovers and haters of Capitalism. If you want problems solved, this book offers a very interesting guide. Most people think government interferes with business, and media interferes with education. This book shows how the opposite can and should be the case. The book talks about entrepreneurship, technological change, and scenario planning. There are also some interesting interviews with a variety of thought leaders. The author seems very interested in using cable TV technologies to widely distribute education. It seems that this interest is not shared by many in the cable TV industry today.

A must-read book for entrepreneurs as well intrapreneurs

I have always enjoyed reading books by entrepreneurs, particularly those who are willing to share their strategic thinking thought processes behind their entrepreneurial successes. From my personal perspective, just the author's various scanning methods and scenario building methodology (with case studies) as well as information resources outlined in his book are already worth the price you pay for the book. Most entreprenuers-authors talk about environmental scanning (a very important input part of strategic thinking process) but often do not share their tactical approaches. This author does very well and quite in depth. Also, he outlines the scenario building process (a seemingly complex thinking process according to several business/management books) in only 7 simple steps. He has a website which readers can access using a password code given in the book but unfortunately his does not have much new stuff other that what is already in the book. The book is also interspersed with insightful interviews with leading thinkers, whose books I have also enjoyed reading, e.g. Alvin Toffler, Richard Saul Wurman, Thoedore Modis, and Andrew Garvin. On the whole, this is a very light, easy-to-read and no-frills book, and I strongly recommend it to all entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.