The Performance Economy

This updated and revised edition 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, sell and manage performance over time, and how manual jobs can contribute to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources.

List of contents

Producing Performance Selling Performance Managing Performance Over Time Sustainability and The Performance Economy

About the author

WALTER R. STAHEL is head of risk management at the Geneva Association, Switzerland. In 1982 he founded the Product-Life Institute, Europe's oldest sustainability-based consultancy. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK and a frequent guest lecturer for Tohoku University's postgraduate department, Japan. An alumnus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Stahel has authored several prize-winning academic papers. In 1989/1993, he co-authored The Limits to Certainty with Orio Giarini, which was published in six languages.

Summary

This updated and revised edition 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, sell and manage performance over time, and how manual jobs can contribute to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources.

Product details

• Authors: W Stahel, W. Stahel
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349369195
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36919-5
• No. of pages: 349
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 219 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 349 p. 6 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; B, Industrial Organization, Development Economics, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics of industrial organization, economy;performance;sustainability