Overview

Rethink your way to a better life In business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model. Part business biography, part business blueprint, Total Rethink explains how this can be done. Successful telecoms entrepreneur David McCourt lays out the reality of the dangerous situation we find ourselves in and suggests solutions which will empower everyone, including business people, politicians, diplomats, and teachers, to repair the damage we have already done, and prepare for the dramatic changes to come. •    Change the way you think and behave to be a true entrepreneur  •    Understand why incremental change no longer works  •    Move at the speed of the times we’re living in to keep up •     Find trusted, effective guidance you can put to practice today Written by a sought-after speaker, businessman, and entrepreneur, the advice inside this book will help you learn to think—and live—like a revolutionary.  

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Author:   David McCourt
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781119565352

ISBN 10:   1119565359
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   19 July 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Visualize the Future 1 Chapter 2 Start a Bottom-Up Revolution 7 Chapter 3 When the Revolutionaries Become the Establishment and Stop Blowing Up the Model 21 Chapter 4 Entrepreneurial Thinkers Can Be Found in Every Walk of Life 33 Chapter 5 Can You Teach Entrepreneurship or are Creative Entrepreneurs Born that Way? 39 Chapter 6 Work on Your Strengths, Forget Your Weaknesses 53 Chapter 7 Being Interested in Everything 65 Chapter 8 Getting Taken Seriously 71 Chapter 9 Achieving the Impossible 77 Chapter 10 Tell Your Story to the World 81 Chapter 11 Radical Ways of Getting Paid 85 Chapter 12 Taking Risks and Grasping Opportunities 91 Chapter 13 Connecting Computers to One Another 105 Chapter 14 Finding a Mentor 113 Chapter 15 Trying to Do Everything at the Same Time 123 Chapter 16 If You Are Persistent, Your Plan B May Be Better Than Your Plan A 137 Chapter 17 Crowdsourcing Is the Future 145 Chapter 18 The Death of the Middlemen 157 Chapter 19 Ten-Year-Olds Have Great Ideas, Too 163 Chapter 20 Never Be Afraid to Think Big – or to Think Young 167 Chapter 21 Future Generations 181 Chapter 22 The Power Shift 189 Chapter 23 The Power of Immigration 201 Chapter 24 The Sheer Joy of Being a Creative Revolutionary 207 Epilogue 213 About the Author 217 Notes 219

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DAVID McCOURT is Founder and Chairman of Granahan McCourt Capital whose European offices are in Dublin. He is an Irish American businessman, an entrepreneur, and one of the world's most successful, award-winning business people. The Economist described him as having, ""impeccable credentials as a telecom revolutionary.""

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