Beyond Tallulah is a biography of Sam Wyly, an entrepreneur who built 10 companies to billion-dollar valuations. The book chronicles his journey from a Depression-era childhood in rural Louisiana to becoming a self-made billionaire six times over. It highlights his work in various industries, including founding companies like Bonanza Steakhouse, Michaels Arts & Crafts, and Green Mountain Energy. The biography also details Wyly's early vision for a wireless data network decades before the internet existed, and his philanthropic contributions, such as helping to launch what is now NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
This reference resource examines the accomplishments of famed leaders in areas such as politics, military affairs, business, religion, the arts, and the sciences. The book is an excellent source for those looking for an introduction to learning about leadership and case studies that illustrate leadership in action. Leadership provides the tools and content to help students form their own opinions about the eternal questions surrounding the mystery of successful leadership by revealing the true stories behind the great leaders of history.
This book focuses on the business story of Walt Disney and the company he built. Combining a unique blend of entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and a relentless drive to bring out the best in his teams, Walt Disney created one of the most successful ventures in business history. Outlining the specific processes of the company, Goldsby and Mathews provide the reader with the tools they need to embrace their own entrepreneurial leadership style, to lead effectively, to be more innovative, and to build a successful organization.
In Originals, Adam Grant examines how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and challenging the status quo. Using a variety of studies and stories from business, politics, and entertainment, he explains how to recognize a good idea, speak up effectively, build a coalition of allies, and overcome fear and doubt. The book provides a guide for nurturing originality in children and building workplace cultures that welcome dissent, drawing on compelling examples like a TV executive who saved Seinfeld and an analyst who changed a key rule at the CIA. The ultimate goal is to provide a new perspective on how to reject conformity and make a positive impact.
Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s. Brilliantly re-creating the amazing confluence of events that produced the Yugo, Yugoslav expert Jason Vuic uproariously tells the story of the car that became an international joke.
Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs--a real-life Tony Stark--and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits.
This book describes the experiences and successes of female innovators and entrepreneurs in twenty candid interviews. It highlights the varied life and career stories that lead these women to the top positions in the technology industry that they are in now. Interviewees include CEOs, founders, and inventors from a wide spectrum of tech organizations across sectors as varied as mobile technology, e-commerce, online education, and video games.
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. In The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful individual but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics, and culture that defines Silicon Valley.
