| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
| Note |
"A Productivity Press book." |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Giving is our future / Blake Mycoskie -- Where was the entrepreneurial dinosaur, when we needed him? / Naveen Jain -- Work is love made visible / Pascal Finette -- Do you create from the light side or the dark side? / Martin Bjergegaard -- Simple ways to get super ideas / Richard St. John -- Starting without an idea / Camilla Ley Valentin -- How to conquer the world without money / Paavo Beckman -- From bad taste to Forbes Magazine / Sophie Trelles-Tvede -- Music for everyone / Andreas Ehn -- Don't underestimate the "product-market fit" phase / Thor Angelo -- Learning to become an entrepreneur / Murray Newlands -- Leadership from the trenches / Christian Lanng -- "B2both": why all startup founders need a growth currency / Lars Fjeldsøe-Nielsen -- Catching waves / Erik Anderson -- Entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint / Mette Lykke -- How to build culture / Brian Chesky -- Why culture is just as important for tech startups as tech / Tine Thygesen -- The entrepreneur's guide to failing in a good way / Hampus Jakobsson -- Trust everyone! / Theis Søndergaard -- Listen, act, repeat / Craig Newmark -- We train people to innovate and then tell them to stop doing so / Tendayi Viki -- We are animals with tools / Salim Ismail -- Becoming truly data-driven / Danny Lange -- The land of lost ambition / Alf Rehn -- Curiosity is an irritating underestimated driving force / Julie Kjær-Madsen -- The innovator's disaster / Paul Nunes -- From capturing to creating value / Nathan Furr -- Innovation is born from the struggle / Simon Sinek -- You don't need more time / Seth Godin -- Pretotype or die / Tim Vang -- Startups are not a smaller version of a large company / Steve Blank -- When to not trust your gut / Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg -- Banking is essential, but banks are not / Jacob de Geer -- Our hearts and minds will have much more time / Sonia Arrison -- Disruption is something you must experience yourself / Jimmy Maymann -- How to anticipate the future / Daniel Burrus -- The future leader is ethical, passionate, bold and driven by purpose / Sandja Brügmann -- The case for authenticity / Todd Dewett -- Knowing why you are there / Edgar H. Schein -- I want to redefine success in business / Bart Houlahan -- Companies with soul / Henry Mintzberg -- No idols > authentic vision / Thomas D. Zweifel -- Authentic leadership is narcissism / Christian Ørsted -- The world of today and tomorrow / Otto Scharmer -- Are you an 18 second manager? / Tom Peters. |
| Summary |
The GuruBook is an inspiring collection of 45 articles and interviews with well-known thought leaders and entrepreneurs, whose leadership and strategic skills have resulted in very successful businesses. These renowned leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators have tested their visions and assumptions and have forged revolutionary business models. In this book, they share their most important insights, learnings, and tools. They cover broad topics such as entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership, and they illustrate why these are not separate topics, but indeed must be combined and linked to succeed as a business and as an entrepreneur. The GuruBook was published in Scandinavia in the Autumn of 2016 and was an instant #1 bestseller. This English version of the book contains many additional exciting interviews with thinkers such as Salim Ismail (Singularity University), Naveen Jain (Moon Express), Jimmy Maymann (Huffington Post), Otto Scharmer (Theory U), Blake Mycoskie (TOMS) and many others. The GuruBook is for burgeoning entrepreneurs, leaders, business developers, and innovators who know that traditional business models no longer provide results in fast-evolving digital and global economies. Other contributing authors to the book include Simon Sinek, Seth Godin, Steve Blank, Sonia Arrison, Daniel Burrus, Edgar H. Schein, Henry Mintzberg, Tom Peters, Pascal Finette, Andreas Ehn, Murray Newlands, Brian Chesky, Hampus Jakobsson, Craig Newmark, Danny Lange, Alf Rehn, Paul Nunes, Nathan Furr and Mette Lykke. More information can be found at: www.thegurubook.org. |
| Subject |
Entrepreneurship.
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New business enterprises -- Management.
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Entrepreneurship |
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Entrepreneuriat. |
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Nouvelles entreprises -- Gestion. |
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entrepreneurs. |
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Entrepreneurship |
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New business enterprises -- Management |
| Added Author |
Løw, Jonathan, 1978- editor.
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| Added Title |
Guru book |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gurubook. Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018] 9781138566439 (DLC) 2017041804 (OCoLC)1025370231 |
| ISBN |
9781315123752 |
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1315123754 |
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9781351343053 |
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135134305X |
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