The Geek Way
16 November 2023
Imprint: Macmillan Business
Synopsis
Financial Times Business Books of the Month
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Read by the author, Andrew McAfee, and Sean Patrick Hopkins. With a foreword by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
'A handbook for disruptors' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google
We’re living in a time of amazing innovation, but we’re not paying enough attention to one of the most important of all:...
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16 November 2023
606 minutes
Andrew McAfee, Sean Patrick Hopkins
9781035026203
Imprint: Macmillan Business
Reviews
Andy understands that we geeks haven’t just been creating new technologies in Silicon Valley — we’ve also been creating new and improved ways to run a company in a world permeated by tech. Here he distills what we’ve come up with. This book is a handbook for disruptorsEric Schmidt, former CEO of Google
It's the most compelling analysis I've seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organizations, and what they still have to learnAdam Grant, host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking and #1 New York Times bestselling author, Think Again
By combining management theory, competitive strategy, the science of evolution, psychology, military history and cultural anthropology, McAfee has produced a remarkable work of synthesis that finally explains within a single unified theory — The Geek Way — the reasons why the tech startup approach has taken over so much of the worldReid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and New York Times bestselling author, The Start-Up of You
Companies that don’t follow The Geek Way will fall behindAmy C. Edmondson, Professor of Leadership & Management, Harvard Business School and bestselling author, Right Kind Of Wrong