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The American businessman has traditionally turned to topAmerican leaders and academics for information on managementtechniques. But in an increasingly global economy, the lessons tobe learned from the experience of foreign business leaders areessential for all American managers. Reinhard Mohn's revisededition of Success Through Partnership -- expanded with essays onvanity in the life of a manager and new goals in the workplace, andwith a new chapter on freedom for the creative man -- remains animportant addition to the American manager's bookshelf. AlthoughMohn's views do not necessarily represent the majority of Europeanor German management, his opinion is highly respected. One of themost successful businessmen of the postwar era, he has built hiscompany, Bertelsmann, Inc., into one of the biggest mediaconglomerates in the world. Today, Bertelsmann is a $14billioncompany with more than 57,000 employees worldwide.Mohn has developed and practiced some of the most innovativemanagement techniques we have seen during the postwar period. Withthe expansion of Bertelsmann, Mohn has shown that it is possible tocombine modern leadership techniques with social concerns. He hasdemonstrated that efficiency and human concerns need not beincompatible, but should, in fact, be the basis for theproductivity of the economic system. In this book he presents astrategy for partnership between employees and management, areorganization of the three elements of business -- capital, work,and management -- and suggests how capitalism must be modernized tosave the free-enterprise system.