William C. Taylor (2) (1959–)
Forfatter af Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
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William C. (Bill) Taylor is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is a cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company. Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win was named a "Business Book of the Year" by The Economist and the vis mere Financial Times. Bill's new book is Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself (January 2011, William Morrow). Taylor is a graduate of Princeton University and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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While better than most, it's still a business book.
I read this book as part of a project at work in which we collectively read a business book and write comments on it. This book deals with numerous companies who have set themselves apart from the norm through a wide variety of innovative and down right off beat ways of operating in the business world.
It primarily focuses on how these companies chose to be different to set a new approach on how they interact with their customers. Being truly different leaves a distinct impression in the market and in most cases gave them an edge that led to success over their peers.
There is so much packed into the book that it is one of those where you really have to pause and think about the message. The ideas and approaches laid out are certainly worthwhile to explore and ponder in thinking about our own business environs and how they too can be changed for the better.… (mere)
It primarily focuses on how these companies chose to be different to set a new approach on how they interact with their customers. Being truly different leaves a distinct impression in the market and in most cases gave them an edge that led to success over their peers.
There is so much packed into the book that it is one of those where you really have to pause and think about the message. The ideas and approaches laid out are certainly worthwhile to explore and ponder in thinking about our own business environs and how they too can be changed for the better.… (mere)
This book would have been the result if you took the Wisdom of Crowds, The Ten Faces of Innovation, The Success of Open Source, and any book by Seth Godin and made them collide at supersonic speed.
That doesn't mean there weren't good lessons in this book, merely that it felt like the lessons had been repackaged from the other books above.
That doesn't mean there weren't good lessons in this book, merely that it felt like the lessons had been repackaged from the other books above.
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