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Derek Lidow delves into the deep history of innovation to deliver essential new insights into how entrepreneurs create value and bring about change. Telling the captivating stories of people from many different cultures over thousands of years, he shows how entrepreneurs transform the world through relentless innovation.
List of contents
Preface: Stumped No Longer
Introduction: An Indispensable Problem
1. Emergence
2. The Core of Entrepreneurship
3. Outsiders
4. Fuel to Fire
5. Entrepreneur Versus Entrepreneur
6. Scaling Supply
7. Scaling Demand
8. Scaling Simplicity
9. Scaling Consequences
10. Attempts at Control
11. Value Beyond Money
12. The Possibilities of Our Entrepreneurial Future
Notes on the Definition of "Entrepreneur"
Bibliographic Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the author
Derek Lidow is a professor of the practice at the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton University. He is the author of
Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises (2014) and
Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies (2018) as well as more than a hundred articles on innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Lidow also has practical experience as the founder of a leading market-research firm and CEO of a global semiconductor company, and was a Hertz Foundation Fellow.
Summary
Derek Lidow delves into the deep history of innovation to deliver essential new insights into how entrepreneurs create value and bring about change. Telling the captivating stories of people from many different cultures over thousands of years, he shows how entrepreneurs transform the world through relentless innovation.
