Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win - Softcover

Taylor, William; LaBarre, Polly

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9780007244065: Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win

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ISBN 10: 0007244061 ISBN 13: 9780007244065

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007

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“A pivotal work in the tradition of ‘In Search of Excellence’ and ‘Good to Great’ and featuring many of today's most interesting corporate rising stars. These are companies that blend the revolutionary zeal of the late 1990s dotcom era with an emphasis on values in a way that has set them apart from the ethical crisis gripping American business in the first years of this century.” The Economist.

"Cases. Cases. Cases. We desperately need concrete, compelling, uplifting examples of new varieties of Excellence to guide us to and through the future. And you'll find them by the bushel in ‘Mavericks at Work’. Bill Taylor and Polly LaBarre, a pair of brilliant raconteurs as well as analysts, more than fulfill their promise to let us be 'eyewitnesses to the future.' I didn't 'read' this book–I devoured it." Tom Peters

Tom Peters is the author of ‘In Search of Excellence’ and one of the leading management experts in the world.

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From Publishers Weekly
A collection of case studies featuring the same formulaic ebullience
endemic to business books since blurber Tom Peters' seminal work In Search
of Excellence, this reader from FastCompany magazine cofounder Taylor and
influential business writer LaBarre profiles some of the more interesting
companies doing business today: Cirque de Soleil, Commerce Bank, Pixar,
Anthropologie, Southwest Airlines, Jones Soda, Apple Computer and
Craigslist among them. Such companies may have disparate cultures, but what
unites them is originality, self-knowledge and passion. Whether by
remaining small, recruiting zealously, or functioning like a kind of cult,
such businesses succeed by imbuing the corporate rank and file with an
entrepreneur's vision, avoiding the twin vices of mediocrity and
complacency. Conversational but rigorous, Taylor and Labarre's chipper
exploration of imagination at work holds value for novice and journeyman
business leaders.
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