Jeff Bezos
Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value Daniel Isenberg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) A brilliant analysis of entrepreneurship as “the contrarian perception, creation, and capture of extraordinary value” Let’s say that a Mount Rushmore…
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Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business Anthony K. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington, and Tsun-yan Hsieh Harvard Busin ess Review Press (2012) How to develop a mindset that you can apply in any situation,…
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Here is an excerpt from John A. Byrne’s cover article by FORTUNE magazine. Great ideas are hard to come by. Putting them to work is even harder. Byrne invites you to meet the founders who turned concepts into companies and changed the face of business.…
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The Start-Up of YOU: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha Crown Business (2012) How and why start-up mind-sets and skill-sets are essential to achieving and then sustaining success…however defined The…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * In…
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Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As…
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Here is an excerpt from an article featured by Bloomberg Businessweek online (October 3, 2011) in which Brad Stone points out that Jeff Bezos’ new tablet, the Kindle Fire, is cheap, pretty, and puts Amazon in perfect position to take…
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Here’s an article written by Bruce Upbin for Forbes magazine. To check out all the online resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscriptions information, please click here. * * * We’re proud to be publishing the first appearance…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew McAfee for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts,…
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How Do Innovators Think?
What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple’s Steve Jobs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Ebay’s Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman, and P&G’s A.G. Lafley tick? In a question-and-answer session with HBR contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer, Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University…
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