Alan Deutschman
Author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
About the Author
Alan Deutschman is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. For the past twelve years, he has covered business and technology. He was Fortune's Silicon Valley correspondent for seven years, a senior writer at GQ, and a contributing editor at New York magazine. His articles have appeared in The New show more York Times Magazine, Wired, Premiere, Worth, and Fast Company. He lives in San Francisco. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Alan Deutschman
A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma (2003) 69 copies
Dawn of The Dead 1 copy
The VAnity Fair 100 1 copy
Associated Works
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 (2012) — Contributor — 295 copies
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What makes people change? This is the central premise of this short, interesting book by author Alan Deutschman. More specifically, why don't people change when even their own pending mortality is at stake? Why aren't facts and fear about our physical health, for example, enough to motivate us to change?
Deutschman walks us through three major case studies that reinforce the framework his framework of three Keys of change: 1. finding a new relationship / mentor you can relate to who can inspire you to do something different, 2. Repeating new actions and habits with the help of this person, and 3. shifting one's thinking into a new paradigm through the influence of 1 and 2. This sounds simplistic, but all good frameworks are simple, memorable, and actionable.
The book examines an ex-con rehab center in San Francisco called Delancey Street, led by a woman named S, the GM plant in California that Honda purchased and led to unprecedented excellence in employee performance, and a doctor who found a way to persuade heart patients to improve their chances of survival by changing the way they live.… (more)
Deutschman walks us through three major case studies that reinforce the framework his framework of three Keys of change: 1. finding a new relationship / mentor you can relate to who can inspire you to do something different, 2. Repeating new actions and habits with the help of this person, and 3. shifting one's thinking into a new paradigm through the influence of 1 and 2. This sounds simplistic, but all good frameworks are simple, memorable, and actionable.
The book examines an ex-con rehab center in San Francisco called Delancey Street, led by a woman named S, the GM plant in California that Honda purchased and led to unprecedented excellence in employee performance, and a doctor who found a way to persuade heart patients to improve their chances of survival by changing the way they live.… (more)
A gossipy collection of loosely connected stories about Steve Jobs. Clearly a journalist's book, it proceeds in paragraph fits and keeps restating its premises.
I would not recommend this book. That said I enjoyed the many examples he used to hammer home his few points on leadership. Unfortunately, the leadership traits were obvious and he treated the examples as if they completely proved his points when they did not.
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/*** read this book for the third time. Narration was journalistic at times( as if it is an excerpt from a newspaper) but the research is good.
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