Product Description

This is probably what we nine-to-fivers need to read. It is more than inspiring; it's insightful, engaging and enlightening. Being an entrepreneur with a global business is getting easier than ever. All you need is a little bit of courage and creativity to find the right products (or services). In plain language, Rohan Hall gave out the "meat" of how to start and be successful in today's globalised business. You don't need to be an MBA to read this book. Its profound strategies are extremely useful to those who haven't been used to the idea of going global in the business world. His ability to convince that this is the way of the future combined with his business knowledge makes this a valuable book for all who want to get out of the rat race.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #552990 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 277 pages

About the Author
Rohan Hall has spent the last 20 years helping companies develop global business and technology strategies. Some companies he has provided services to include: Hewlett Packard, PeopleSoft, Corning, Honda, Avery Dennison, Lockheed, Boeing, The American Red Cross, Sierra Pacific Power Company, and Robert Half. He has provided services for these companies primarily in the United States but also throughout Europe and Asia.
Mr. Hall is the owner and CEO of vConcepts, Inc., a professional services company that focuses on the integration of technology and business processes for large organization primarily through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). He is also the owner and CEO of Eye Contact Media, Inc., the publisher of this book.

Customer Reviews

Revolutionary
What I found most important about this book is that this is the first time I've seen an author give specifics on how to get wealthy and how he got wealthy.

Beware, this is not an easy book. It's not a book on how to get wealthy overnight. It is a book on how to build an 'Agile' business. The book site strategies used by multi-national corporations to dominate markets. He list some of these Fortune companies that he has worked with. He goes further by showing how these strategies can be used by small business to become competative globally. His stated goal is to make small business competative with global organizations.

I thought the book was daring, revolutionary and even futuristic with some of the technologies that he describes - that are used by Fortune 500 companies. Overall, I highly recommend this book. It's my best read this year so far.

How to build a global business
This is an interesting book because it get technical at times but stays on track with promises made by the author at the beginning at the book. Basically, you learn how to build a global company from a small business. I liked it because it gave an insight of how large businesses operate and how to do the same for your small business without the cost one would expect to pay. It's based on forming 'strategic relationship' and then using them to take advantage of various globalization trends. It's an excellent book and one I'm sure many businesses (including my own) will benefit from.

Dangerously seductive
Ignore the silly title - Part of the penalty of having the U.S. as one's primary market!

With respect to the previous reviewers, this is a very easy book to read that is not at all technical to anybody other than a total layman. The author goes to lengths to almost over-simplify the approach to an agile company and that makes it dangerously seductive.

What this book doesn't set out to cover is what makes a good entrepeneur. There is nothing so sad as seeing intelligent people fail in business because they don't have that essential entrepeneurial spirit. So I recommend that you complement this book with 'The Beermat Entrepeneur' and 'The Art Of The Start'. Both are very easy to read and, in many ways, thought-provokingly divergent.

From experience, I know that the author covers all the relevant topics and issues. I recommend this book highly.