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Informationen zum Autor DAVID McCOURT is Founder and Chairman of Granahan McCourt Capital whose European offices are in Dublin. He is an Irish American businessman, an entrepreneur, and one of the world's most successful, award-winning business people. The Economist described him as having, "impeccable credentials as a telecom revolutionary." Klappentext Rethink your way to a better lifeIn business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model.Part business biography, part business blueprint, Total Rethink explains how this can be done. Successful telecoms entrepreneur David McCourt lays out the reality of the dangerous situation we find ourselves in and suggests solutions which will empower everyone, including business people, politicians, diplomats, and teachers, to repair the damage we have already done, and prepare for the dramatic changes to come.* Change the way you think and behave to be a true entrepreneur* Understand why incremental change no longer works* Move at the speed of the times we're living in to keep up* Find trusted, effective guidance you can put to practice todayWritten by a sought-after speaker, businessman, and entrepreneur, the advice inside this book will help you learn to think--and live--like a revolutionary. Zusammenfassung Rethink your way to a better lifeIn business! and in life! everything is changing fast! apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies! but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model.Part business biography! part business blueprint! Total Rethink explains how this can be done. Successful telecoms entrepreneur David McCourt lays out the reality of the dangerous situation we find ourselves in and suggests solutions which will empower everyone! including business people! politicians! diplomats! and teachers! to repair the damage we have already done! and prepare for the dramatic changes to come.* Change the way you think and behave to be a true entrepreneur* Understand why incremental change no longer works* Move at the speed of the times we're living in to keep up* Find trusted! effective guidance you can put to practice todayWritten by a sought-after speaker! businessman! and entrepreneur! the advice inside this book will help you learn to think--and live--like a revolutionary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Visualize the Future 1 Chapter 2 Start a Bottom-Up Revolution 7 Chapter 3 When the Revolutionaries Become the Establishment and Stop Blowing Up the Model 21 Chapter 4 Entrepreneurial Thinkers Can Be Found in Every Walk of Life 33 Chapter 5 Can You Teach Entrepreneurship or are Creative Entrepreneurs Born that Way? 39 Chapter 6 Work on Your Strengths, Forget Your Weaknesses 53 Chapter 7 Being Interested in Everything 65 Chapter 8 Getting Taken Seriously 71 Chapter 9 Achieving the Impossible 77 Chapter 10 Tell Your Story to the World 81 Chapter 11 Radical Ways of Getting Paid 85 Chapter 12 Taking Risks and Grasping Opportunities 91 Chapter 13 Connecting Computers to One Another 105 Chapter 14 Finding a Mentor 113 Chapter 15 Trying to Do Everything at the Same Time 123 Chapter 16 If You Are Persistent, Your Plan B May Be Better Than Your Plan A 137...
