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Summary & Analysis of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
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Publisher's Summary
Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.
In his thought-provoking audiobook, Loonshots, physicist, and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall explains how the world we see around us is the culmination of crazy ideas by individuals who refused to accept the status quo and boldly chased after a greater vision.
ZIP Reads Summary includes:
- Synopsis of the original book
- Key takeaways from each chapter
- Specific examples of successful (and unsuccessful) loonshots
- Analysis of why certain loonshots fail while others succeed
- Editorial review
- Background on Safi Bahcall
About the original book:
Loonshots is an intriguing blend of world history, science, technology, and business. Safi Bahcall takes his readers on a roller-coaster ride that reveals the power of nurturing crazy ideas and embracing audacious projects. Though we often feel comfortable maintaining the status quo, especially in a group setting, sometimes we must provide opportunities for daring ideas to flow. The truth is that the world as we know it today would not be what it is without loonshots. Bahcall shows us how we can create the right environment for nurturing and launching the kind of loonshots that save lives and change the world.
Disclaimer: This audiobook is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Loonshots. ZIP Reads is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.
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I thought it was worth a couple bucks. Got a few ideas from it. The narrator didn't use much inflection, but was consistent in his delivery.
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An unstoppable business revolution is under way - and it is Agile. Companies that embrace Agile Management learn to connect everyone and everything...all the time. They can deliver instant, intimate, frictionless value on a large scale.
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2 Part Book - The part on Agile is truly Awesome!
- By CBM on 03-05-18
By: Stephen Denning
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The Founder's Dilemmas
- By: Noam Wasserman
- Narrated by: Mark Mosely
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin.
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Too much talk on the data
- By Stanley Tan on 10-02-14
By: Noam Wasserman
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Inside Drucker's Brain
- By: Jeffrey A. Krames
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In late 2003, Peter Drucker invited Jeffrey Krames to his home in Claremont, California, for a rare interview. The 94-year-old Drucker who had amassed an unprecedented body of published work, comprised of many hundreds of thousands of pages, spent a full day sharing his insights from a lifetime of management consulting and writing. This resulting audiobook is a simple guide that distills the essential wisdom from Drucker's considerable body of work.
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Learn From the Master
- By morton on 10-24-08
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Amp It Up
- Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
- By: Frank Slootman
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning, Frank Slootman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading Data Domain and ServiceNow to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up, he shares his leadership approach for the first time.
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Must read
- By Patty Post on 01-29-22
By: Frank Slootman
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Exponential Organizations
- New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (and What to Do About It)
- By: Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, Michael S. Malone, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company - the Exponential Organization - that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology.
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Not a revelation
- By A. Yoshida on 01-24-16
By: Salim Ismail, and others
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Good Profit
- How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
- By: Charles G. Koch
- Narrated by: Paul Michael, Charles G. Koch
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, drawing on revealing, honest stories from his five decades in business - the company's many successes as well as its stumbles - Koch walks the listener step by step through the five dimensions of Market-Based Management to show stockholders, entrepreneurs, leaders, students - and innovators, supervisors and employees of all kinds, in any field - how to apply the principles to generate Good Profit in their organizations, companies, and lives.
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Good Profit for Business and Life!
- By Vision42 on 10-18-15
By: Charles G. Koch
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Accelerate
- Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
- By: John P. Kotter
- Narrated by: Chris Sorenson
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In the groundbreaking new book Accelerate (XLR8), leadership, change-management expert, and best-selling author John Kotter provides a fascinating answer - and a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption. Accelerate (XLR8) vividly illustrates the five core principles underlying the new network system, the eight accelerators that drive it, and how leaders must create urgency in others through role modeling.
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Terrible
- By cyberpunk on 03-12-19
By: John P. Kotter
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Blitzscaling
- The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
- By: Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - foreword
- Narrated by: Chris Yeh, Reid Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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What entrepreneur or founder doesn't aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the start-ups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water.
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not much here.
- By Francis Shanahan on 09-05-19
By: Reid Hoffman, and others
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The Lean Startup
- How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- By: Eric Ries
- Narrated by: Eric Ries
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
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Informative, mature but not original or essential
- By Jason Comely on 02-19-13
By: Eric Ries
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Beyond Performance 2.0
- A Proven Approach to Leading Large-Scale Change, 2nd Edition
- By: Scott Keller, Bill Schaninger
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Whereas the first edition of Beyond Performance introduced the authors' "Five Frames of Performance and Health" approach to change management, the fully revised and updated Beyond Performance 2.0 has been transformed into a truly practical "how to" guide for leaders. Every aspect of how to lead change at scale is covered in a step-by-step manner, always accompanied by practical tools and real-life examples.
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Extreamly Insightful
- By Greg Caprara on 08-12-19
By: Scott Keller, and others
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The Breakthrough Company
- How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
- By: Keith R. McFarland
- Narrated by: Keith R. McFarland
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The vast majority of small businesses stay small - and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent (a tiny one tenth of one percent) break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor.
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A "must listen" if you are an SMB
- By Arnie on 05-23-10
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Built to Last
- Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, Book 2)
- By: Jim Collins
- Narrated by: Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Abridged
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Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.
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Worst audio book doesn’t even read the book
- By Bob on 07-20-20
By: Jim Collins