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The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management
Charles Handy was, for many years, a professor at the London Business School. He is now an independent writer and broadcaster. He describes himself, these days, as a social philosopher.
 
Business in Japan
Japan, Tokyo Stock Exchange
Episode 7: Kenichi Ohmae - biography

Kenichi Ohmae is a business consultant, social reformer, author and journalist, adviser to governments and business entrepreneur, he has a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - and is a motor cycling enthusiast. For a period of twenty-three years, Dr. Ohmae was a partner in McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm.

Kenichi Ohmae is Japanese and lives in Tokyo but he is instinctivelyglobal.

He has written over one hundred books, many of them on Japanese public policy issues. Only half a dozen or so have made their mark in the West but these have been hugely influential, not least in explaining Japan to the rest of the world.

He now resides in Tokyo with his wife, Jeannette, and two sons, who share his spare-time interest in music, sailing, marshal arts, motorcycles, and scuba diving.

Bibliography:
'The Mind of the Strategist, New York, McGraw Hill, 1982
'The Bordeless World', London, William Collins, 1990
'The Evolving Global Economy', Boston, MA, Harvard B.S.P, 1995
'The End of the Nation State', London, HarperCollins, 1995

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More useful words :

management consulting firm
company which employs people who give advice on how to manage a business

instinctivelyglobal
spontaneously concerning the whole world

public policy issues
problems concerning rules set by the government for the people

half a dozen or so
approximately six

made their mark
became successful and influential in an activity or in a place

not least
particularly (the expression is used when giving an important example or reason)
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