INTRODUCTION
BY MICAH SHIPPEE, PH.D.,
CEO, READY LEARNER ONE
A NEW WAY TO WEALTH is Bruce Piasecki’s nineteenth book.
This short but smart new book is based on his 40 years as the owner and CEO of a management consulting firm that knows firsthand the power of doing more with less. Piasecki’s firm, AHC Group (www.ahcgroup.com), has helped Toyota enter the global market with their hybrid powertrain. They helped Walmart enter Africa efficiently, with strategic partners across five years. In recent years, they worked on competitive frugality with such globe-spanning giants as bp on its energy transformation, and Merck and Walgreens on their needs to flourish in a time of Covid-19. Piasecki’s career is about the art of competitive frugality. He grew up a factory kid on Long Island, made his way to Cornell as a basketball star, and up the corporate stairwells of the firms noted in his client history and an ongoing series of biannual membership workshops known as the Corporate Affiliates Workshops.
What you are about to experience is the ultimate summary of his career: a down-to-earth, readable, and optimistic narrative in nine chapters and a prelude that sing.
THE NATURE OF MODERN WORK
To study Piasecki’s work is to study the changing nature of work itself, and to reflect on how the best firms compete and thrive. Piasecki builds himself on the shoulders of other giants like Jim Collins, and Harvard’s business gurus, as well as on the shoulders of the six leaders he has written biographies about. But what matters is his insight into what will help us in life, careers, families, and friends.
The nature of modern work is changing because the world is changing. Insights into the future of work largely explore our processes and workflows as they are related to modern technologies that are evolving and increasingly disruptive. In effect, we might be pressured to think of the future of work as doing more with more. However, our globalized society needs us to take more care and understand disruption and innovation in this time of carbon and capital constraints.
We are, after all, global citizens, humankind, children of one earth. Piasecki’s new book is a just-in-time perspective challenging our status quo. He offers a
