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Over the past 30 years, the United States has lost commanding leads in business after business. We no longer make cameras, TVs, MP3 players, cell phones, or DVD players, and we have become the world’s largest debtor nation. Everyone thinks this is because of cheap labor costs, but Elkus contends that, in actuality, Asian leaders have a fundamental and different way of thinking about business. If the U.S. wants to regain its competitiveness and preserve its global power, it must play the game as it’s played in the rest of the world. Winner Take All explains what it takes to be competitive and how we need to reform our thinking to regain what we have lost.

Richard Elkus has been chief executive or on the board of directors of more than 15 different high-technology companies, as well as a board member of the University of California President’s Board of Science and Innovation, Scripps Research Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Economic Strategy Institute, the American Electronics Association, and many other organizations.

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