DescriptionThe phenomenal rise of the Internet seems to have transformed business as we know it. However, according to two men who have been at the forefront of the Internet's impact, some important things haven't changed: the future still belongs to passionate companies made up of passionate people. In Clicks and Morter, Schwab co-CEO David Pottruck teams up with leadership master and best-selling author Terry Pearce to show what it takes to build a high-growth organization in today's electronic environment.
DescriptionWhen young Michael Dell began selling personal computers out of his college dorm room, he launched a new kind of business model dealing directly with consumers. When he embraced the Internet as his selling channel, bypassing traditional brick-and-mortar retailing, his model was complete. The result was $25 billion in sales in the last year. Dell Computer Corporation has been on the Fortune 500 list since 1992, and its founder is a billionaire many times over. In this address he tells what he has learned and where the still-young Internet economy is headed. He also tells his story in the 1999 book, Direct from Dell.
DescriptionDisruptive Innovation is the world's premier new management and investment conference. Produced and hosted by GilderGroup, the conference features the insights, research, and forecasts of Clayton Christensen and George Gilder, two of today's top-tier strategists in the emerging information economy. Disruptive Innovation is a limited-enrollment opportunity to access the most important new thinking on technological disruption, its opportunities, its dangers, and its inescapable influence on your investment and management success. Now you can hear highlights from this exclusive event at audible.com?.
DescriptionThe high-technology industry has given rise to a pioneering group of entrepreneurs and executives that is not only behind today's most innovative technological advances but also at the forefront of a dynamic new movement in business. Having helped their own organizations survive and thrive in a competitive, pressure-filled arena, these visionary leaders offer invaluable lessons for executives and managers in all industries. Now, in Silicon Gold Rush, their inspirational stories are told and their strategies for success revealed. Providing valuable insights into a myriad of key issues, from nurturing creativity and motivating employees to finding new markets and weathering tough times, this audiobook examines the maverick leadership techniques that are finding their way into mainstream corporate culture, with far-reaching consequences.
DescriptionToday's heads of big companies are as recognizable to us as the most popular entertainers or sports stars, but the heart and soul of every organization are those leaders below the CEO. Today's celebrity CEO has become either a figurehead or an egomaniac…
DescriptionAn exciting new annual anthology: a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world. Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media and have consul…
DescriptionThe two most influential media moguls of all time: two billionaires, two fascinating stories that often intersect. Ted Turner is the brash, outspoken and unpredictable vice-chairman of AOL Time Warner who jockeyed a small billboard firm into a $3 billion cable empire that includes - but is not limited to - CNN, Superstation WTBS, and Turner Network Television. Rupert Murdoch is the ruthless media baron whose News Corporation started with one paper and grew to include over 125 papers and magazines around the world, Fox studios and television networks, and broadcast satellite services in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Theirs is a fierce rivalry that has accelerated the race to deliver information and entertainment across the globe. Together they wield the ultimate one-two punch in the media power game. This outstanding dual biography delves deep into both of their lives-public and private.
DescriptionIn 1982, a little upstart named Sun was making waves in the high-tech industry with its groundbreaking workstation technology, even as early competitors dismissed the company as not worth losing sleep over. Since then, Sun Microsystems has become a formid…
DescriptionBell Labs, the greatest research lab of the twentieth century, has been called America's national treasure and the crown jewel of AT&T and Lucent. To scientists all over the world, pursuing research at Bell Labs has long been a dream because of its brilli…
DescriptionDealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC - a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the '70…
