The Performance Economy

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Springer, Aug 18, 2006 - Business & Economics - 230 pages
This book outlines strategies and models for how to use technology and knowledge to improve performance, create jobs and increase income. It shows what skills will be required to produce and sell performance, manage performance over time and how manual and skilled jobs can contribute to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Producing Performance
8
2 Selling Performance
86
3 Managing Performance Over Time
179
4 Sustainability and the Performance Economy
269
Notes
288
References
294
Index
299
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WALTER R. STAHEL founded the Product-Life Institute in Geneva. He is Head of the Geneva Association's Risk Management research and Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey and UTT (Université de Technologie de Troyes), France. A graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, he has authored several prize-winning papers and, with Orio Giarini, The Limits to Certainty, published in six languages.