The Titanic Effect
Successfully Navigating the Uncertainties That Sink Most Startups
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Todd Saxton
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M. Kim Saxton
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What makes a start-up successful? This book, from award-winning business school professors and a tech serial entrepreneur, tells what makes start-ups successful. Instead of telling start-ups what to do, like most start-up books, they share what start-ups should avoid. Along the way, they share small-business start-up success stories gleaned from the How I Built This podcast and their firsthand experiences. These stories of start-up success are contrasted with stories of start-up failure from start-up graveyards and most notably, the Titanic. Like many of today’s start-ups, the Titanic hoped to disrupt the transportation industry of its time. It fell short, to a disastrous outcome, from the same sources that prevent start-up success today.
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Story4 out of 5 stars 160
The Amazon Way on IoT is for the leader who wants to understand how the Internet of things is transforming business and society. Listeners will discover business cases, key concepts, technologies and tools to help develop, explain and execute their own IoT approach through understanding Amazon's and other leading companies sophisticated IoT technologies and strategies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful, but quite boring
- By Riaan on 02-21-17
By: John Rossman
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The Supply Chain Revolution
- Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive World
- By: Suman Sarkar
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Story4 out of 5 stars 209
When CEOs think about the supply chain, it's usually to cut costs. But the smartest leaders see supply chain and sourcing for what they can be: hidden tools for outperforming the competition. Steve Jobs, upon returning to Apple in 1997, focused on transforming the supply chain. He hired Tim Cook - and the company sped up the development of new products, getting them into consumers' hands faster. The rest is history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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informative but dry
- By Justin on 01-01-18
By: Suman Sarkar
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The Science of Growth
- How Facebook Beat Friendster - and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust
- By: Sean Ammirati, Richard Florida - foreword
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4 out of 5 stars 95
The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that. The next challenge is growth - to achieve the financial returns and, more importantly, the impact they dreamed of when starting off on their adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book
- By Josh on 04-29-16
By: Sean Ammirati, and others
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Designing for Growth
- A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers
- By: Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate listeners on one of the hottest trends in business development: "design thinking", or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Jeanne Liedtka's recent book, The Catalyst: How YOU Can Lead Extraordinary Growth, was named a Top Innovation and Design Thinking Book by Business Week. Tim Ogilvie has been hailed as a visionary for his pioneering contributions to service innovation, business model innovation, and customer experience design.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook requires regular book
- By GoingGoingGone... on 07-01-18
By: Jeanne Liedtka, and others
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The Self-Made Billionaire Effect
- How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value
- By: John Sviokla, Mitch Cohen
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 260
Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first massmarket personal computer. Or what Steve Case might have done for PepsiCo if he hadn't left for a gaming start-up that eventually became AOL. What if Salomon Brothers had kept Michael Bloomberg, or Bear Stearns had exploited the inventive ideas of Stephen Ross? Scores of top-tier entrepreneurs worked for established corporations before they struck out on their own and became self-made billionaires.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of time!
- By Anonymous User on 05-30-20
By: John Sviokla, and others
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Company of One
- Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
- By: Paul Jarvis
- Narrated by: Paul Jarvis
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,008
Paul Jarvis left the corporate world when he realized that working in a high-pressure, high profile world was not his idea of success. In Company of One, Jarvis explains how you can find the right pathway to do the same, including planning how to set up your shop, determining your desired revenues, dealing with unexpected crises, keeping your key clients happy, and of course, doing all of this on your own. Company of One is a refreshingly new approach centered on staying small and avoiding growth, for any size business.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts out strong...
- By Oliver Nielsen on 05-02-20
By: Paul Jarvis
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Attacker's Advantage
- Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities
- By: Ram Charan
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
In The Attacker's Advantage, Charan reveals the upside of uncertainty for those leaders who are nimbly positioned to anticipate the catalysts of disruption and embrace change. He updates and adapts the principles of his previous best sellers to address the current turbulent business environment, cutting through the veil of complexity to concentrate on the new customer needs and expectations and providing the tools for corporate leaders to take their companies to a higher level.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book - volume lower than usual
- By James Gajewski on 06-14-15
By: Ram Charan
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Lead and Disrupt
- How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma
- By: Charles A. O'Reilly III, Michael L. Tushman
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 117
In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed; think of Blockbuster, Kodak, or RadioShack. When we hear about their demise, it often seems inevitable - a natural part of "creative destruction." But closer examination reveals a disturbing truth: Companies large and small are shuttering more quickly than ever. What does it take to buck this trend? The simple answer is: ambidexterity. Firms must remain competitive in their core markets, while also winning in new domains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very very inspirational to me.
- By Fábio on 06-12-17
By: Charles A. O'Reilly III, and others
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Design a Better Business
- New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
- By: Patrick van der Pijl, Lisa Kay Solomon, Justin Lokitz
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you've likely never seen before, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over 20 total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good for people who don't have an experience with Agile and Lean Startup
- By Jovan Vidic on 08-26-17
By: Patrick van der Pijl, and others