Bill Glynn

Left on Red

How to Ignite, Leverage and Build Visionary Organizations

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Produktbeschreibung

Left on Red is written from an insider venture capitalist's viewpoint on how successful businesses are made. World renowned venture capitalist Bill Glynn is the man behind deals such as iChat, Youtube, and Legendary Pictures. His experience with visionaries such as the founders of Google, Apple and other companies is that Visionaries see the unseen, and have an uncanny ability to bring wild dreams to fruition.

Left on Red will teach readers how to be an entrepreneur or intropreneur in the corporate landscape. Great ideas have the power to catalyze societal change. The book presents the case on how to avoid the corporate rules and systems which are designed to promote failure and to rise up and follow a path that can change the world.

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Praise for Left on Red

"Bill Glynn has a unique ability to cut through the clutter and immediately identify what the key issues are facing businesses, executives, and entire industries, and solve them in real time. He can be brutally frank and about as subtle as a sledgehammer, but it is impressive how many times he turns out to be right."
-Thomas Tull, CEO, Legendary Pictures

"In all my years of doing business with some of the world's greatest leaders and most creative personalities, Billy G. is one of the smartest executives I've met. Left on Red is a manual for those who think differently."
-Joel Katz, media icon

"Innovation is a way of life. To be achieved, companies must unlock the potential of their employees and surround themselves with thought leaders, allowing everyone to think differently. I encourage everyone I meet in business to pick up the phone or email Billy G. In the spirit of Left on Red, he is the ultimate super connector."
-Glenn Armstrong, Vice President, Business Innovation, Amway, an Alticor business, one of the world's largest private companies

"Billy G's Left on Red is exactly what America needs right now to accelerate change and innovation."
-Tony Jeary, strategic facilitator and coach to the world's top CEOs

"Zone in. You don't want to miss a thing here, lose your head, or worse, risk being left behind."
-Greg Ray, CEO, International Speakers Bureau

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780470230237
• ISBN-10: 0470230231
• Artikelnr.: 23393222

Autorenporträt

Bill Glynn is the founder of Collective IQ, ranked the top Corporate Venture Capital platform in the world. He was instrumental in helping make instant messaging and online chat ubiquitous across the Web and was ranked by Information Week as one of the world's top fifteen innovators. He is an advisor to some of the most influential business and entertainment personalities, over a dozen of the world's most prestigious corporations, and world bodies focused on harmonizing humanity and the weaponization of science.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
FORWORD (Joel Barker).
I. THE VISIONARY.
1. Getting it.
2. Business is War.
3. The Great Escape.
II. THE FUTURE.
4. Not New Media-a New Medium.
5. Web 5.0.
6. WEAINTGOTSH#%.COM.
III. THE ART OF A DEAL.
7. Deal Du Jour.
8. The Two-by-Four.
9. The Intellectual Desert.
10. Return on Innovation.
11. Go Large or Go Home.
IV. THE STRENGTH OF SOCIAL CAPITAL.
12. Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies.
13. Penguins and Polar Bears.
14. Life Leverage.
15. The Serengeti.
16. The World Is a Stage.
17. Ideation: The New Economy Fuel.
18. Take the Wheel.
AFTERWORD: ON BECOMING A STUDENT OF INNOVATION (Dr. Denis Waitley).
INDEX.