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by Jane Waterhouse (Introduction by), Peter Minnock Stewart (Author)
Foreign competition is forcing American industries out of business. In areas where the United States was once the inventor and world leader-areas such as consumer electronics and appliances and on and on-we're virtually out of business. Our basic industries are disappearing.Workers have been displaced and demoralized. Real unemployment and underemployment (partial employment)are high. Not only have we become a debtor nation for the first time in history, we've become the world's largest debtor.
Author Biography
Peter Minnock-Stewart a native of Kansas City, Missouri, is a retired businessman who in his latest career was head of his own anti-consultant firm (utilizing a problem-solving system with the people inside organizations, the people he saw as the real problem-solvers). He started with a highest honors degree in economics from the University of Virginia in 1948. His firm worked closely with several U.S. Government departments as well as with major U.S. corporations such as GE, Dupont, and AT&T during the 1970s and 1980s. He was the Canadian National Boys Tennis Champion at the end of the 1930s. During World War II, after serving with the American Field Service, he became the only known-and, at the age of twenty-one, the youngest-American to hold field grade rank in the British Indian Army (battle intelligence) as a British Intelligence Corps officer. Following World War II he began working with Ford Motor Company as a member of a small group enrolled in the Ford Field Training Program, a two-year project designed to prepare the company's future leaders. At the end of the program he and a colleague-as a token of gratitude for their wonderful work/learning experience-wrote a book that highlighted a company-wide major problem. Unfortunately, important people in the company did not appreciate the book. Its authors were fired. After that, Peter Minnock-Stewart became involved in Detroit's advertising agency business where he eventually headed up several manufacturers' accounts, including-ironically-two divisions of Ford. During the early 1970s he was a senior executive at several major advertising agencies as well as president of a management consulting/design organization in New York City. In a 1981 Forbes magazine article on the company he had founded and was then leading, Intellectics SMB Corporation, he was described as a "contrarian consultant." That description still holds.
