Steve Jobs
“Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal” Who said it first? Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal? Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Garson O’Toole…
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John Butman is founder and principal of the idea and content development firm Idea Platforms, Inc. and author of Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas (Harvard Business Review Press 2013). He has worked with…
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Bill Schley is the author of The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power (Wiley 2013). The story of how the Chairman of Rackspace, some Navy SEALs, a few Israeli Innovators, and a branding expert got together to discover the heart of…
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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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Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology Bob Lord and Ray Velez John Wiley & Sons (2013) “The villain throughout this book is the silo.” Increasingly and more extensively, successful brands are using technology to create memorable…
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Gina Trapani is the lady who has made it to the top 10 richest bloggers of the world and is the owner of Lifehacker. The site has always been an inspiration for many people because the main focus is given…
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Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall Bibliomotion (2013) To paraphrase Pogo the possum, “We have met the customer and we are [or should be] her or him.” Over the years, I have read and reviewed hundreds of books…
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World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It John A. Byrne Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011) Exemplars of an opportunistic mindset and acceptance of risk and potential failure, as well as independence and control John A. Byrne is chairman…
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Lina Echeverría spent twenty-five years inspiring creativity and accelerating innovation at Corning Incorporated, one of America’s leading technology companies, that provided the world with everything from the optical fiber that enabled the Internet to the tough glass used for iPhones.…
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Naked Launch
Here is a brief excerpt from an outstanding article written by Nathan Heller for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * One Tuesday in January, 2007,…
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