Innovation and Entrepreneurship

By: Peter F. Drucker

Narrated by: Michael Wells

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. It clearly explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Peter Drucker, the most influential and widely-read thinker and writer on modern organizations, gives us a superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures have to know, have to learn, and have to do in today's economy and marketplace.

©1989 by Peter F. Drucker (P)1990 by Blackstone Audiobooks

Audio

The S sounds is very sharp, feels like an icepick is driven through your ear. The is software to take care of that, i suggest using it.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Excellent research providing great insights into this topic. It makes for an excellent reference source against which to assess the business environment today in 2021 as we navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic.

reads as a studentbook that bored narrator

the notorious quality of the record to which most of the reviewers refer to is quite bearable and doesn't affect intelligibility even at a pace 0.7-0.8 required only to compensate for the proclivity of the narrator to mash up separate logical pieces by foregoing pauses, the text itself is diluted with quite entertaining instances and as one of the writings of the influencers recommended by Rich Dad Poor Dad's author is much better styled and incomparably denser with actual information than the latter

Amazing even if you are not into entrepreneurship

I heard good things about the author and the book but still was pretty reluctant. It was wrong the book is awesome. it’s really interesting even though it’s not the newest publication. The book has a lot of well organized observations about how the world around works (yeah the world, not only startups but also governments, politics, education ...) at the same time it’s interestingly has lively examples.
Highly recommend

Good content, but reader is hard to follow

Finished the book. Some good content. But overall book not for me. The reader was tough to follow.

An excellent book that needs a remastering

I was very concerned when I read other people's review of how the narration was below quality. I still downloaded the book, and I'm glad I did. The content of the book is excellent, well suited for an audiobook because of its narrative style. Very interesting, well laid-out topics about business, with plenty of examples of well known companies. The only issue -and I can see what people are referring to- is the quality of the recording, which probably started as a cassette tape that got poorly mixed to digital audio. It is somewhat muted, but still understandable. I think the narrator does a pretty good job. I don't think it's a "dry" reading.

Great book - needs to be refreshed

The book is really good, sometimes due to the lapse of time a few statements are outdated. However, the core of the thesis is still relevant. The version at audible has some major issues with sound quality, it needs to be remastered to better equalize the sound.

Great story!

Innovation and Entrepreneurship was a great story and a good read overall. I prefer these types of audiobooks with a female voice. I would recommend this book to serious entrepreneurs. It won't take the entrepreneur long to pay their undivided attention.

A Great, Prescient Read

Haven't read a lot of Drucker, but I found this to be very thought provoking and enlightening re: how to think about innovation and how to think about solution delivery in the marketplace. A worthy read for any one considering being an entrepreneur or already dabbling in that space.

Great book read by a robot

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

The book's content is wonderful, heck it's Peter Drucker, right. But the author speaks like a robot, like an automated answering machine voice and that takes away so much from the content and makes it hard to get into the sage lessons inside.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Innovation and Entrepreneurship?

Talking about how building a culture of abandonment and acceptance of failure as part of constant testing is a good thing.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Michael Wells?

Don't have a better suggestion.

What did you take away from Innovation and Entrepreneurship that you can apply to your work?

Some meeting techniques in building a culture of entrpreneurship, searching for surprise failures and successes and digging deeper into them, creating a culture of change and truly understanding the customer deeply.