Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs

By: Carmine Gallo

Narrated by: Sean Mangan

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

In The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, best-selling author Carmine Gallo reveals the qualities that make the Apple co-founder the most innovative leader in business today. Each principle is backed with research, quotes, and first-person interviews with experts and business leaders, as well as specific ideas for applying those principles to every business, large or small.

By following Steve Jobs’ visionary example, you'll discover exciting new ways to unlock your creative potential and to foster an environment that encourages innovation and allows it to flourish. You'll learn how to match - and beat - the most powerful competitors, develop the most revolutionary products, attract the most loyal customers, and thrive in the most challenging times.

©2011 Carmine Gallo (P)2011 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

A quick guide to Jobs101.

This is a fun and gritty mailed in from the future book. Thought process and results, The passion of you starts in the morning and never need be turned off again. as it is in the best of your thinking anyhow, right?

Inspiring, combination self help and biography

If you could sum up Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs in three words, what would they be?

Inspiring biography

What did you like best about this story?

This book not only focuses on Steve Jobs, but also describes other innovators that follow Steve Job's principles. Very inspiring.

A New Found Appreciation

I enjoyed Carmine Gallo's How to Speak Like TED on audible yet I was not a strong supporter of Jobs. So I came to the book with some ambivalence. I was shocked and surprised as the creative elements were highlighted by Gallo. Not only were Jobs' revelations shared but other creative thinkers as well. Also, I loved hearing about the shortsightedness of some companies that did not nurture the creative process. This is a story as only Gallo can share! I came away with a new appreciation of Jobs' contributions and a deeper appreciation of Carmine Gallo!

Idol worshippers' masterpiece, doubtfully practic

innovation is nothing but a catch word here. Unless mass manipulation is 'innovation" for you too. The whole book sings "kumbayas" to three same guy the book admits stole most of "his" ideas...

Eye Opening Simplicity

I have been writing coaching and teaching nearly for decades. And now I understand why I’ve only reached a fraction of the people I can serve.

Whether or not you have a business, this information will improve your communication all across your life. I recommend this book very highly

Good summary of Steve's approach. Sort of.

Maybe I've listened to too many books about Steve Jobs, but this one seems to be a high-level overview of things covered in all the other books I've listened to. So it's a good summary/review, although some of the statements are contridicted in The official bio that was just released. The one thing about this book that drives me crazy are all the mis-pronunciations. It's difficult for me to listen to the content with so many obvious errors.

awful

this is the worst review i have ever written. This is awful.
you could spend an hour reviewing all of steve jobs youtube videos, including his stanford address and key MacWorld presentations, and be better entertained and hear everything of value in this book. Oh, and Steve can actually speak in an entertaining way.
As far as I can tell, all this author ever did was listen to the same speeches and then expound on them with trite ridiculous anecdotes. To summarize the book, be just like Steve and you will be an inspiration to all around you, turn around your business, and be a smashing success.
On top of that the narrator is simply difficult to listen to. He could take Steve's speeches and make them nauseatingly boring. If he spoke any slower, you could read braille faster.
What a waste.

Passionately Painful To Listen To

What disappointed you about Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs?

I gave up on this book in the middle of Chapter 9 because all it talked about was Steve Job's passion. Absolutely zero insight into the innovations secrets of Steve Job's except he was passionate. I passionately wanted to shoot myself in the head if I had to hear any more about how passionate Steve Jobs was. Because of A, SJ was passionate. B would not have happened if SJ was not passionate. C did not get SJ down because he was passionate. What would SJ do? Be passionate.If you want to hear about how passionate SJ was, this book is for you.

What was most disappointing about Carmine Gallo’s story?

By chapter 9, there was nothing related to the innovations of Steve Jobs except for the life history of Steve Jobs.

What does Sean Mangan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I thought his voice and reading was ok but the subject matter became so grating and repetitive. I was not disappointed in Sean Mangan's reading at all...just the material.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment. Everybody I have talked to about this book laughed and said I should have got the autobiography instead.

Any additional comments?

Save your credits.

If you've read Steve Jobs' biography, skip this...

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I think if you are interested in Steve Jobs enough to have read his biography by Walter Isaacson, I would not recommend this. None of the stories were new or insightful. The author does have some excellent Youtube videos on the presentation skills you can learn from Steve Jobs, but this book did not contain any information nearly as useful. You can sum up the message of the book as "Think Like Steve Jobs" (as if you can innovate like Jobs merely by getting in the proper mindset).

Would you ever listen to anything by Carmine Gallo again?

I would be willing to try something more along his excellent observations on the presentation skills of Steve Jobs. But this did kind of make me distrustful. I am surprised he would publish this the way it was written.

What does Sean Mangan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

He's good.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Not really. It's very rah-rah. Low on substance. Truthfully it felt like he pumped this out on a blog and published it because by having Steve Jobs in the title, it was a guaranteed seller.

Steve Jobs would disapprove

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

No one. I found this book to be meaningless dribble. The sentences didn't seem to connect together. I think the book had a good outline but it was just 8 hours of nonsense.

Would you ever listen to anything by Carmine Gallo again?

No. I got the sense that Carmine Gallo is writing merely to fill the pages and could care less about what he's trying to communicate, if he's trying to communicate anything at all.

What didn’t you like about Sean Mangan’s performance?

There is a disconnect between the way he says things and what he's reading. His voice is more suited for a 30 second movie trailer. 8 hours of same fluctuating pretentious authoritative-speak falls on deaf ears. He does some good impressions here and there. But he also has a insurmountable accent on a few particular words that is very distracting. I hate how he says the word "focus". It sounds offensive the way he says it. And this book probably has the word focus in it a hundred times. He also mispronounces people's names and world recognized advertising firms that made me lose respect for the Sean Mangan. It should have been re-recorded.

Any additional comments?

I can't understand how there are so many positive reviews on this audiobook/book.