The athletic quality in Joseph C. Wilson’s delivery harkens back to the assertive performances often heard in the early days of business audios, especially those aimed at motivating salesmen. Though his clear diction and lower-range vocal tones are easy enough to hear, a more relaxed approach would have better fit this nuanced book on how to make creative people feel comfortable and productive in organizational settings. It’s a smoothly written compilation of 51 specific suggestions from a serial entrepreneur (Atari, Chuck E. Cheese) who seems to have an endless supply of insider stories of how people like Apple’s Steve Jobs thrived in the various businesses he was associated with. This fast-moving, eye-opening work reminds listeners that the controls and formality of traditional organizational life won’t work with today’s Gen-X innovators. T.W. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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. 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. Cheese's and two dozen other companies. 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. 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. 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. Cheese's and two dozen other companies. 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. 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.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940172436888 |
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| Publisher: | Brilliance Audio |
| Publication date: | 09/24/2013 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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