The power of positive destruction : how to turn a business idea into a revolution / Seth Merrin with Carlye Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merrin, Seth, author.

Adler, Carlye, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

It's no longer good enough to build a company to last; today it's about building a company to ignite change. The Power of Positive Destruction reveals how to start a new business, disrupt an industry, and adapt to changing environments by leveraging technology and a new mindset. Serial entrepreneur Seth Merrin has built businesses by seeing issues with the status quo and introducing positive changes that have disrupted—and revolutionized—industries. In this book, he breaks down his process step-by-step to show you what you need to know to successfully start a company and transform an industry. Merrin's incredible story, coupled with real, actionable advice, will resonate with anyone who wants to be a catalyst of change. With this book, readers will learn to see the inefficiencies, ineptitudes, and everyday problems that others dismiss as the cost of doing business and create "unfair competitive advantages" to stack the deck—and win. You'll see how problems in current business models are really opportunities of which to take advantage and learn what you need to know and do to seize those opportunities —no matter where you work. Seth Merrin saw Wall Street as it was, then built a company to turn it into what it could be—safer and more efficient for investors. This book shows you how he did it, and how you can too, with the power of positive destruction. Discover how to turn status quo into disruption Understand how to stack the deck in your favor to achieve the best possible chances of success Learn how to build and run a company and design a culture for constant change Acquire new skills to create strategy, sell your disruptive product or service, and negotiate effectively Technology and innovation can disrupt or transform any industry. It's happening faster and more broadly now than ever, creating myriad opportunities for everyone. But winning in this new world is not easy. The incumbents will fight mightily against it and even those who would benefit from change may first express fear. This book reveals the techniques from identifying the opportunities to designing and executing the strategy you'll need to succeed. With The Power of Positive Destruction you can to tap into your inner change agent and transform your company, your industry, and the world.

Contents:

Any industry can be disrupted ... Positively

Ask WTF

Create an unfair competitive advantage

What do I do now?

Business is a series of problems to solve

Develop your unique selling proposition

Launching a company is both art and science

Negotiation skills: can't be in business without them

No tree grows to the sky

If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough

Culture by design or culture by default

You can invent the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2016).

ISBN:

9781119196440

1119196442

9781119196433

1119196434

OCLC:

964404445