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Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win

by William C. Taylor, Polly LaBarre (Author)

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"In industry after industry, organizations that were once dismissed as upstarts, wildcards--mavericks--are making serious waves and growing fast. From high-profile innovators such as HBO and Google to funky sandwich shop chains, the truly imaginative and unconventional businesses are changing the way things are done--providing new approaches, strategies, and outlooks, as well as better ways to compete, lead, and succeed in the twenty-first century. The first book to document this change, Mavericks at Work is business "edutainment" for a smart, ambitious readership, profiling some of the most exciting--and often eccentric--CEOs in the United States, while detailing their remarkable strategies for success."--Publisher's website. Profiles successful entrepreneurs who are promoting their companies by challenging outdated practices, revealing how they have developed large-scale ideas, promoted products and services of high value, and consistently increased their own knowledge bases.… (more)
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Borrowed this one from my workplace (UHD Library).

See my note on it here:

[http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/05/booknote-mavericks-at-work.html] ( )
  bloodravenlib | Aug 17, 2020 |
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. ( )
  knightlight777 | Nov 21, 2013 |
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. ( )
  dvf1976 | Apr 24, 2008 |
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LaBarre, PollyAuthormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Whitener, BarrettNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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"In industry after industry, organizations that were once dismissed as upstarts, wildcards--mavericks--are making serious waves and growing fast. From high-profile innovators such as HBO and Google to funky sandwich shop chains, the truly imaginative and unconventional businesses are changing the way things are done--providing new approaches, strategies, and outlooks, as well as better ways to compete, lead, and succeed in the twenty-first century. The first book to document this change, Mavericks at Work is business "edutainment" for a smart, ambitious readership, profiling some of the most exciting--and often eccentric--CEOs in the United States, while detailing their remarkable strategies for success."--Publisher's website. Profiles successful entrepreneurs who are promoting their companies by challenging outdated practices, revealing how they have developed large-scale ideas, promoted products and services of high value, and consistently increased their own knowledge bases.

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