Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+3452+4294945071 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1257625 In this long-awaited memoir, Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, explains how he has solved problems, what hes learned from his many endeavors--both the triumphs and the failures--and his compelling vision for the future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474407 Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apples hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. -- From publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=985624 The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=720707 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=597142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632234 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=350678 This book shares the motivational experiences of ten African-American entrepreneurs who overcame overwhelming obstacles to make their fortunes in the business of their choice. In writing Against All Odds, author Wendy Harris traveled around the United States, spending extensive one-on-one time with each person profiled and listening closely to what they had to say. Applying her considerable journalistic skills, Harris vividly captures the unique essence of each entrepreneur, while concisely chronicling the twists and turns each experienced on his or her road to success. And, throughout each chapter, she highlights powerful lessons each has learned along the way - as told in his or her own words.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313444 Silicon Valley is filled with garage-to-riches stories and hot young entrepreneurs with big ideas. Yet even in this place where the exceptional is common, Randy Komisar is a breed apart. Currently a Virtual CEO who provides leadership on demand for several renowned companies, Komisar was recently described by the Washington Post as a combined professional mentor, minister without portfolio, in-your-face investor, trouble-shooter and door opener. But even more interesting than what he does is how -- and why -- he does it. Komisar has found a way to turn an ambitious and challenging work life into his lifes work. The Monk and the Riddle is unlike any other business book youve read. Transcending the typical leadership book model of lists and frameworks on how to succeed in business, The Monk and the Riddle is instead a lively and humorous narrative about the education of a unique Valley insider. It unfolds over the course of an ongoing dialogue between Komisar and two would-be entrepreneurs, Lenny and Allison, and is at once a portal into the inner workings of Silicon Valley -- from how startups get launched to how venture capitalists do their deals to how plans get prepared and pitched -- and a deeply personal account of how one mover and shaker found fulfillment, not in works rewards but in work itself. As the narrative follows Komisar through meetings with venture capitalists and eager entrepreneurs, and as his conversations with Lenny and Allison evolve toward a resolution, The Monk and the Riddle imparts invaluable lessons about the differences between leadership and management and passion and drive, and about the meaning of professional and personal success. When all is said and done, writes Komisar, the journey is the reward. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273598 Here is a complete set of portraits of Americas greatest generators of wealth. Only such a collective study allows us to appreciate what makes the great entrepreneurs really tick. As H.W. Brands shows, these men and women are driven, they are focused, they deeply identify with the businesses they create, and they possess the charisma necessary to persuade other talented people to join them. They do it partly for the money, but mostly for the thrill of creation.--BOOK JACKET.