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Building a billiondollar business in china by author jack perkowski july, 2009 by jack perkowski isbn. Jack perkowski, founder of a carbon trading business, and soughtafter consultant. Perhaps he should have thought it through before hiring a clueless young man with one years experience in china to oversee 418,000,000 dollars in investment. Having lived and worked in china for more than two decades, tim clissold explains the secrets that westerners can use to navigate through its cultural and political maze. I cant tell if perkowski wrote this book for selfdefense clissold hasnt be too kind with him or just because he felt to write it. It was ranked among the best books in 2009 by the economist, best book for business owners by inc.
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Businesses, nonprofit organizations, event planners and companies across the country have worked closely with our booking agents to hire jack perkowski for a speaking engagements, guest appearances, product endorsements and corporate events. Yes, it is the true story of pioneering direct investment during the ten years of exponential socioeconomic and societal change that were 1995 to 2005, and there were some moments when i a general reader struggled to keep. Author tim clissold first visited china in 1988, while working as an accountant in london. For example, we see how chinas economy and government are highly decentralized and how the country tends to operate like a series of villages spread across a vast landscape. China is undoubtedly that country that have proven to the world that indeed theres power in number. Jack perkowski gave up a successful wall street banking career to try something more audacious building a worldclass autoparts maker in china. Being the planets most populous nation, this todays global economic power was once a nation partially depended on western support for survival. China perkowski s auto components firm up for sale. Mar 19, 2008 tim clissold, mr perkowskis former colleague, has already described how asimcos chinese partners cheated it out of millions, in his riveting 2004 book, mr china. It became famous following the publication of tim clissolds best. Tim clissold, mr perkowski s former colleague, has already described how asimcos chinese partners cheated it out of.
China, essentially continues the story, although for legal reasons many of the executives names in the book were changed. This book is the fantastic story of tim clissold, spending 248 million dollars of someone elses money in corporate industrial joint ventures in china in the 1990s. He is the author of a memoir detailing how he helped the wall street. The following book recommendations are mustread books for anyone interested in learning more about chinese history, culture, or government.
Backed by a business partner who has access to large quantities of wall street money, clissold and his partner pat jack perkowski raise a private equity fund to invest in multiple factories throughout the peoples republic. Cgtns susan roberts spoke to jack perkowski, managing partner of jfp holdings about how hes convincing u. Feb 25, 2017 10 more mustread books that explain modern china. Here are 305 of the best book subscription services available now. Building a billiondollar business in china jack perkowski on. Managing the dragon, jack perkowski s story of his almost years running asimco, an automotive components maker, in china is therefore a rare treat, a firsthand account of the struggle to build a business there. Tim clissold, mr perkowskis former colleague, has already described. In this true tale, the writer highlights the struggle and efforts of the wall street banker, jack perkowski, who had only moved to china with the aim of multiplying his investment. China by tim clissold meet your next favorite book. Called pat in the book, the figure resembles jack perkowski. Jan 27, 2005 the book suggests that the directinvestment strategy is, if not a complete hallucination, close.
Tim clissold, mr perkowskis former colleague, has already described how asimcos chinese partners cheated it out of millions, in his riveting 2004 book, mr china. It has been widely reported that this is jack perkowski, who in the 1980s was the director of investment banking at paine. Book jack perkowski for appearances, speaking engagements, product endorsements, corporate events, or meet and greet. Choose wisely from the torrent of books on doing business in china. Not nearly as well as one might glean from his new addition to the gurus bookshelf, managing the dragon. Chaina magazine is asias leading title bilingual magazine focused on supply chain, procurement, sourcing and logistics. Tim clissold, businessman and chinaaficionado aiming to strike it big in china, tells his own. If you want to do business in china, jack perkowski is your. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Karel tavernier rekecentra has developed software solutions for reservation systems, weight and balance, ramp handling, flight operations, container terminals, production and warehousing.
Brahm the art of war, sun tzu chinese business negotiating style, tony fang. Filled with hardnosed lessons for anyone with ambitions of breaking into the chinese market, and a rich source of practical wisdom about the realities of china today, managing the dragon answers the questions people ask perkowski most often about his unique experience, as well as those they never think of askingbut should. A memoir by tim clissold is thankfully so much more than a straight account of doing business in china. Clissold and his partner pat jack perkowski raise a private equity fund to invest in multiple. The book, by tim clissold, himself an exasimco employee, was described by the author as. Pierres boss at the time, jack perkowski, also wrote a book. China perkowskis auto components firm up for sale reuters. China would temper, given what i had read about it in the. He was one of the main characters in the tim clissold book, mr. Jack perkowski, for example is the wall street banker, while don st. Jul 15, 2019 jack perkowski jack perkowski jack perkowski is a wall street veteran, author, and the founder and managing partner of jfp holdings, ltd. The memoir mr china by tim clissold, a chinesespeaking accountant who helped perkowski build asimco, covered some of the same ground with more. What i can tell, although i partially disagree with the overly optimistic. Salary, married, wedding, spouse, family jack perkowski is a wall street veteran, author, and the founder and managing partner of jfp holdings, ltd.
China expert, author and mandarin speaker tim clissold writes in china rules. China, chinese rules chronicles his most recent exploits, with assorted chinese bureaucrats, factory owners. Jack perkowski bio jack perkowski from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tim clissold is a western writer on business in china. Dec 21, 2015 apparently jack perkowski now blames tim clissold for many of the problems the book describes, and has refused to read it. But the author subtitles the book how im building a billiondollar business in china. This book is an inspiration and a true tale with a lot of lessons for businessmen and importers who want to do business in china.
No one explains the differences from the front lines better than tim clissold, whos been in china as a student, partner to wall streets first mega investor in the middle kingdom jack perkowski. Jack perkowski talks about investing in china and the countrys economic outlook. May 14, 2005 soon after he graduates, clissold teams up with the pseudonymous pat. Tim clissold, mr perkowski s former colleague, has already described how asimcos chinese partners cheated it out of millions, in his riveting 2004 book, mr china. Hiring and then empowering local talent is a wise first move for foreigners keen to make a mint in china. Get what you really want and subscribe to one or all thirty.
The memoir mr china by tim clissold, a chinesespeaking accountant who helped perkowski build asimco, covered some of. Apr 17, 20 the following book recommendations are mustread books for anyone interested in learning more about chinese history, culture, or government. A prevailing orthodoxy in the west is that developing countries will eventually cast themselves in the mould of the. May 16, 2017 china is undoubtedly that country that have proven to the world that indeed theres power in number.
The book is the story of the early stages of former asimco ceo jack perkowski s initial foray into china in the 1990s, and the savaging he and clissold suffered. Apparently jack perkowski now blames tim clissold for many of the problems the book describes, and has refused to read it. It reads somewhere between a novel, a howto book, and a primer on a second business life in a developing country. China, a memoir by tim clissold, another executive. China is an entertaining and telling book about how easy it is for experienced, intelligent and wellcapitalized foreign investors to lose their shirts in china. Brash optimism of an american in china financial times. Tim clissold tells the thinly disguised story of asimco, one of the largest foreign investors in the country at the time. Jack perkowski talks about investing in china and the. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to china with the misguided notion that he will help bring the chinese into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful and creative operators he would ever meet. But he loses a mark for ignoring tim clissold who wrote mr.
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