Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (921 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476759820 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pink, author of To Sell is Human, A Whole New Mind and Drive)Nolan is a genius, and a generous one, too. Like most geniuses who share their secrets, his secrets are simple, and available to anyone with the guts to listen. Nolan Bushnell's book is a spirited and insightful road map for anyone trying to navigate the new world of work. (Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception) . (Daniel H. An absolutely invaluable book by the founder of Atari and the man who launched Steve Jobs' career (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs)The man who helped give a generation the game of Pong now gives a new generation a series of pongs for their careers
Esther Schindler said Fun reading, perhaps with some useful ideas for businesses that want to encourage innovation. If you want to study accomplishment, someone once told me, don't look only at the creative individual's life and choices. Look at the person's parents' background, because those people likely established an environment that permitted (if not inspired) the fre. Kevin Pezzi, MD said Of the many books I've read, this is the best. I work (probably not for long!) for a company synonymous with high-tech creativity. Nolan Bushnell's spellbinding book corroborated my suspicions about what's wrong with their corporate culture, and why they are successful instead of being hyper-successful. I. Great BookOn Silicon Valley Jan Sollish I bought this book because, although am not in a tech industry, I do work in Silicon Valley. I am always looking for insights into the people I deal with. Many books ( with the exception of Steve Jobs biography) have been very boring.Not so with Nolan Bushnel
For anyone trying to turn a company into the next Atari or Apple, build a more creative workforce, or fashion a career in a changing world, this book will enlighten, challenge, surprise, and amuse.. From the legendary founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s and Steve Jobs’s first boss, the secrets to finding, hiring, keeping, and nurturing creative talent.The business world is changing faster than ever, and every day your company faces new complications and difficulties. He also happened to launch the career of the late Steve Jobs, along with those of many other brilliant creatives over the course of his five decades in business.With refreshing candor, keen psychological insight, and robust humor, Bushnell explains in Finding the Next Steve Jobs how to think boldly and differently about companies and organizations—and specifically the people who work within them. Cheese’s and two dozen other companies. The only way to resolve these issues is to have a staff of wildly creative people who live as much in the future as the present, who thrive on being different, and whose ideas will guarantee that your company will prosper when other companies fail.A celebrated visionary and iconoclast, Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari before he went on to found Chuck E
Stone has also written numerous titles under his own name, including The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick, which has been translated into more than twenty languages; the #1 New York Times bestseller Forks over Knives; and The Watch, the definitive book on the wristwatch. Often cited as the father of the video-game industry, he is best known a