@article{717758,
      recid = {717758},
      author = {DiMicco, Dan.},
      title = {American made : why making things will return us to  greatness /},
      pages = {246 pages},
      abstract = {"American manufacturing is on life support--at least,  that's what most people think. The exodus of jobs to China  and other foreign markets is irreversible, and anything  that is built here requires specialized skills the average  worker couldn't hope to gain. Not so, says Dan Dimicco,  chairman and former CEO of Nucor, America's largest steel  company. He not only revived a major US manufacturing firm  during a recession, but helped galvanize the flagging  domestic steel industry when many of his competitors were  in bankruptcy or headed overseas. In American Made, he  takes to task the politicians, academics, and political  pundits who, he contends, are exacerbating fears and  avoiding simple solutions for the sake of nothing more than  their own careers, and contrasts them with the postwar  leaders who rebuilt Europe and Japan, put a man on the  moon, and kept communism at bay. We need leaders of such  resolve today, he argues, who can tackle a broken  job-creation engine by restoring manufacturing to its  central role in the U.S. economy--and cease creating  fictitious "service businesses" where jobs evaporate after  a year or two, as in a Ponzi scheme. With his trademark  bluntness, Dimicco tackles the false promise of green jobs  and the hidden costs of outsourcing. Along the way, he  shares the lessons he's learned about good leadership,  crisis management, and the true meaning of innovation, and  maps the road back to robust economic growth, middle-class  prosperity, and American competitiveness. "--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717758},
}