Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (February 23, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1476709580
ISBN-13: 978-1476709581
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.4 inches
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The book is a motivational book and it is done in a bold way. If you are following the technology trends, you'd see there's nothing you haven't heard of. If you are not quite tech savvy, you will be wowed by the authors' mesmerizing descriptions of the exponential technology evolution. However, with every example of amazing technology success, the authors omit the thousands of failed companies that are as innovative. They failed not because of lack of bold visions and actions.So be it! Let the authors focus only on the positive news and ignore the negative ones. The book was promoted as a "how to" book. I would love to know the how-to's to recreate the successes mentioned in the book. I think the authors failed miserably on providing the how-to's that are beyond any traditional how-to books: have a mission statement, stay around positive people, be persistent ... really nothing new.Since there aren't any practical breakthrough how-to's in this book, I can summarize the entire book in two words, "Think Big!" This book motivates you in a unique way to think big. You might say there are a thousand books telling you the same thing. You are right.I am not being negative, since this book tries to prevent such comment by indicating that if you don't think the way this book tells you to think, you are not on the right mindset. I am quite a positive person, but this book is just too Pollyanna for me. When I got to the last part of the book, then I realize why the authors tried to hype up the golden opportunity. Read on...Success can't just come from thinking big. You need character, emotional intelligence, relational skills, integrity, etc.
An asteroid killed off the dinosaurs in a blink of an eye.You will be extinctIf you are a large company, you are likely to get killed off the same way the dinosaurs went. Killed by exponential change in robotics, ICT, sensors, AI, synthetic biology, genomics, nanotechnology, 3D, infinite computing, to name but a few of the asteroids. Some of these trends going 5X as fast (biology).Entrepreneurs will surviveThe same way the mammals survived the dinosaurs, so will the entrepreneurs survive the next wave of destruction. In fact they will thrive.Your time to make a dentFor the first time in history a committed individual can have access to the technology, the capital and the minds to make a dent in the universe. But to make a dent in the universe, you need to understand how exponential works.ExponentialExponential has become the new buzz word. The trend that makes everything possible. The trend that will change the world. Probably best described in “The second machine age”, but that books comes with a huge health warning. Exponential also means winners take all.You can do it tooAnd now the winners have decided to jump on the band wagon and help others to win as well. It started with “From zero to one” and then “Exponential organisations” and now “Bold”. You can do it too.6 DsThere is no doubt that digitisation leads to disruption, to demonetisation, to dematerialisation and eventually to democratisation when it becomes available to everyone for nearly free (as predicted by Chris Anderson in his book with the same title). In between these 5 Ds is deception. You don’t see it coming and suddenly it is there.
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