{"product_id":"the-science-of-success-how-marketbased-management-built-the-worlds-largest-private-company","title":"The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS \"Evaluating the success of an individual or company is a lot like judging a trapper by his pelts. Charles Koch has a lot of pelts. He has built Koch Industries into the worlds largest privately held company  and this book is an insiders guide to how he did it. Koch has studied how markets work for decades  and his commitment to pass that knowledge on will inspire entrepreneurs for generations to come.\" T. Boone Pickens \"A must-read for entrepreneurs and corporate executives that is also applicable to the wider world. MBM is an invaluable tool for engendering excellence for all groups  from families to nonprofit entities. Government leaders could avoid policy failures by heeding the science of human behavior.\" Richard L. Sharp  Chairman  CarMax \"My father  Sam Walton  stressed the importance of fundamental principlessuch as humility  integrity  respect  and creating valuethat are the foundation for success. No one makes a better case for these principles than Charles Koch.\" Rob Walton  Chairman  Wal-Mart \"What accounts for Koch Industries spectacular success? Charles Koch calls it Market-Based Management: a vision that nurtures personal qualities of humility and integrity that build trust and the confidence to enhance future success through learning from failure  and a culture of thinking in terms of opportunity cost and comparative advantage for all employees.\" Vernon Smith  2002 Nobel laureate in economics \"In a very thoughtful  creative  and understandable way  Charles Koch explains how he has used the science of human behavior to create a culture that has produced one of the worlds largest and most successful private companies. A must-read for anyone interested in creating value.\" William B. Harrison Jr.  Former Chairman and CEO  JPMorgan Chase \u0026amp; Co. \"The same exacting thought  rooted in the realities of human nature  that the framers of the U.S. Constitution put into building a nation of entrepreneurs  Charles Koch has framed to build an enduring company of entrepreneursa company larger than Microsoft  Dell  HP  and other giants. Every entrepreneur should study this book.\" Verne Harnish  founder  Young Entrepreneurs Organization  author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits  CEO  Gazelles Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945324277813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0470139889","price":27.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-science-of-success-how-marketbased-management-built-the-worlds-largest-private-company","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}