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Smartcuts - How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success / Snow, Shane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snow, Shane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological innovations--United States.
- Technological innovations.
- Entrepreneurship--United States.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Youth--United States.
- Youth.
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- Businesspeople--United States.
- Businesspeople.
- Success--United States.
- Success.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- How hackers, innovators, and icons accelerate success
- Place of Publication:
- HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Serial entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow delves into the reasons why some people and some organizations are able to achieve incredible things in implausibly short time frames, showing how each of us can use these "smartcuts" to rethink convention and accelerate success. Why do some companies attract millions of customers in mere months while others flop? How did Alexander the Great, YouTube phenom Michelle Phan, and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon dash to the top in less time than it takes most of us to get a midlevel promotion? How do high-growth businesses, world-class heart surgeons, and underdog marketers beat the norm? Like computer hackers, a handful of innovators in every era use lateral thinking to find better routes to stunning accomplishments. Throughout history, the world's biggest successes have been achieved by those who refuse to follow the expected course and buck the norm. Smartcuts is about bucking the norm. In it, Snow shatters common wisdom about success, revealing how conventions like "paying dues" prevent progress, why kids shouldn't learn multiplication tables, and how, paradoxically, it's easier to build a huge business than a small one. Smartcuts tells the stories of innovators who dared to work differently and lays out practical takeaways for the rest of us. It's about applying entrepreneurial and technological concepts to success, and how, by emulation, we too can leapfrog competitors, grow businesses, and fix society's problems faster than we think.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction: “How Do They Move So Fast?”
- Part I: Shorten
- 1. Hacking the Ladder: “Bored Mormons”
- 2. Training with Masters: “The Vocal Thief”
- 3. Rapid Feedback: “The F Word”
- Part II: Leverage
- 4. Platforms: “The Laziest Programmer”
- 5. Waves: “Moore and Moore”
- 6. Superconnectors: “Space, Wars, and Storytellers”
- Part III: Soar
- 7. Momentum: “Depressed Billionaires”
- 8. Simplicity: “Hot Babes and Paradise”
- 9. 10x Thinking: “The Rocketeer”
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; Title from title page (viewed September 9, 2014)
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780062302465
- 0062302469
- OCLC:
- 942004587
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