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Zero to one : notes on startups, or how to build the future / by Thiel, Peter,1967-(CARDINAL)635094; Masters, Blake(Blake G.),1986-(CARDINAL)616480; Buck, Matt,illustrator.;
"EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS HAPPENS ONLY ONCE. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything I've learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including Facebook and SpaceX. The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas. Ask not, what would Mark do? Ask: WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? "--"Thiel starts from the bold premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we're too distracted by our new mobile devices to notice. Progress has stalled in every industry except computers, and globalization is hardly the revolution people think it is. It's true that the world can get marginally richer by building new copies of old inventions, making horizontal progress from "1 to n." But true innovators have nothing to copy. The most valuable companies of the future will make vertical progress from "0 to 1," creating entirely new industries and products that have never existed before. Zero to One is about how to build these companies. Tomorrow's champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today's marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. In today's post-internet bubble world, conventional wisdom dictates that all the good ideas are taken, and the economy becomes a tournament in which everyone competes to reach the top. Zero to One shows how to quit the zero-sum tournament by finding an untapped market, creating a new product, and quickly scaling up a monopoly business that captures lasting value. Planning an escape from competition is essential for every business and every individual, not just for technology startups. The greatest secret of the modern era is that there are still unique frontiers to explore and new problems to solve. Zero to One shows how to pursue them using the most important, most difficult, and most underrated skill in every job or industry: thinking for yourself"--
Subjects: New business enterprises.; New products.; Entrepreneurship.; Diffusion of innovations.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 17
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How Stella saved the farm : a tale about making innovation happen / by Govindarajan, Vijay.(CARDINAL)768632; Trimble, Chris.(CARDINAL)472845;
Subjects: Management.; Creative thinking.; Strategic planning.; Diffusion of innovations.; Technological innovations;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Everything connects : how to transform and lead in the age of creativity, innovation, and sustainability / by Hoque, Faisal.(CARDINAL)432420; Baer, Drake.(CARDINAL)612886;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.
Subjects: Organizational behavior.; Diffusion of innovations.; Creative thinking.; Organizational change.; Leadership.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The entrepreneurial state : debunking public vs. private sector myths / by Mazzucato, Mariana,1968-author.(CARDINAL)706152;
Includes bibliographic references and index.Introduction: Thinking big again -- From crisis ideology to the division of innovative labour -- Technology, innovation and growth -- Risk-taking state : from "de-risking" to "bring it on!" -- The US entrepreneurial state -- The state behind the iPhone -- Pushing vs. nudging the green industrial revolution -- Wind and solar power : government success stories and technology in crisis -- Risks and rewards : from rotten apples to symbiotic ecosystems -- Socialization of risk and privatization of rewards : can the entrepreneurial state eat its cake too? -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations.; Entrepreneurship; Research, Industrial.; Technological innovations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The world is flat [sound recording] : a brief history of the twenty-first century / by Friedman, Thomas L.(CARDINAL)176021; Wyman, Oliver.;
Read by Oliver Wyman.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Diffusion of innovations.; Information society.; Globalization; Globalization;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / by Friedman, Thomas L.(CARDINAL)176021;
While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- How companies cope -- The unflat world -- Globalization of the local -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- 11/9 versus 9/11.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations.; Information society.; Globalization; Globalization;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 15
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The world is flat [sound recording] : a brief history of the twenty-first century / by Friedman, Thomas L.(CARDINAL)176021; Wyman, Oliver,narrator(CARDINAL)540179;
Read by Oliver Wyman.With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman brilliantly demystifies the new flat world for listeners, making sense of the advances in technology and communications that challenge us to run even faster just to stay in place.--
Subjects: Globalization; Globalization; Diffusion of innovations.; Information society.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / by Friedman, Thomas L.(CARDINAL)176021;
While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- How companies cope -- Globalization of the local -- If it's not happening, it's because you're not doing it -- What happens when we all have dog's hearing -- The unflat world -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- 11/9 versus 9/11.In The World Is Flat, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his The Lexus and the Olive Tree a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution--Friedman analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have resulted in a changed world, one he calls Globalization 3.0.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Information society.; Globalization; Globalization; Diffusion of innovations.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / by Friedman, Thomas L.(CARDINAL)176021;
pt. [1]: How the world became flat. While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world: 11/9/89 (when the walls came down and the windows went up) ; 8/9/95 (when Netscape went public) ; Work flow software (let's do lunch: have your application talk to my application) ; Open-sourcing (self-organizing collaborative communities) ; Outsourcing (Y2K) ; Offshoring (when China joined the WTO) ; Supply-chaining (Wal-Mart) ; Insourcing (UPS) ; In-forming (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Web Search) ; The steroids (digital, mobile, personal, and virtual) -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting-out. -- pt. [2]: America and the flat world. America and free trade (is Ricardo still right?) -- The untouchables -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test. -- pt. [3] Developing countries and the flat world. The virgin of Guadalupe. -- pt. [4] Companies and the flat world. How companies cope. -- pt. [5] Geopolitics and the flat world. The unflat world -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention. -- Conclusion. Imagination: 11/9 versus 9/11.When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, and giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner? Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations.; Information society.; Globalization; Globalization;
Available copies: 64 / Total copies: 68
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Co-create : how your business will profit from innovative and strategic collaboration / by Nour, David,1968-author.(CARDINAL)490682;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Co-create in: introspection leads to right action -- Co-create together: adaptive innovation -- Co-create forward: strategic relationships -- Co-create through: the stages of the customer experience journey -- Co-create ahead: leading through provocation -- Co-create upward: the spiral of growth -- Co-create away: creating exceptional experiences and organizations -- The co-create canvas."What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationship they have built with you? Most important ... is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of a dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort? That's the provocative and ultimately earthshaking question David Nour poses. He argues that Co-Creation is a transformational journey that naturally leads to growth and evolution ... because it gives birth to shared interests that dwarf anything that existed previously. Nour makes the case that Co-Creation leads to Market Gravity(™), a force that attracts stakeholders to your business because they recognize that many others have also united their interests with yours. It's the sense--backed by tangible metrics--that this is bigger than any of us imagined ... except that you imagined precisely such an outcome. That's the power of Co-Creation."
Subjects: Strategic alliances (Business); Customer relations.; New products.; Diffusion of innovations.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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