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PW Review of TEN STEPS AHEAD

We’re very excited to be publishing Erik Calonius’s new book in March 2011. In Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us Calonius explores the phenomenal success of entrepreneurial visionaries through the lens of neuroscience. The review ran in December 2010:

“There’s always one visionary who has an uncanny ability to see where the world is heading and who has the moxie to forge the way. A journalist with the Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine, Calonius argues that the trailblazers who can anticipate that trend, technology, or new business model boast unique intuition, courage, and emotional intelligence. He profiles Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, and the Wright brothers as he discusses recent neuroscience discoveries along with the behavioral research he conducted with Dan Ariely on Ariely’s groundbreaking Predictably Irrational, painting an intriguing picture of how visionaries think, work, and create. Finally, he suggests that vision can, in fact, be learned—if we train our brains to recognize and work with inspiration and perspective. An intriguing, if somewhat perfunctory, look at extraordinary thinkers and how they achieve what they do. (Mar.)” – Publishers Weekly

For more information or an advance review copy, email laura.m.clark@us.penguingroup.com.

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Kevin Kelly on Technological Sabbaticals & Moore’s Law

 

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In a special bonus segment of our Penguin Radio Show “The Business Beat” we’re posting outtakes from an interview Courtney Young conducted with Wired founding editor Kevin Kelly about his new book What Technology Wants.

Click here to find out whether the rate of technological progress in computers is inevitable, and the wisdom behind taking a break from your smartphone:

The Business Beat: Outtakes with Kevin Kelly

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When the whole world needs a big Ctrl+Alt+Delete

What do you do when you realize you’re headed in the wrong direction, or maybe no direction at all? How do you start out again in the right direction?

This month on the Penguin Business Beat, Courtney Young and I ask some rebooting experts for the answers: Stan Slap, the author of Bury My Heart at Conference Room B, explains how managers can start leading in a whole new way, and get more satisfaction out of their jobs.

Adrian Zackheim, publisher and president of Portfolio, discusses the power of business books to help restart or reinvent your job, life, or industry.

Our regular contributor Jack Covert of 800-CEO-READ, co-author of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, discusses Andy Grove’s rebooting moment at Intel from Only the Paranoid Survive.

And Don Tapscott, co-author of MacroWikinomics (recently longlisted for the FT Goldman Sachs Award!), explains why many businesses—and the whole world—are due for a big Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

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Will Apple Survive the iPhone Glitch?

Portfolio author Jay Greene writes in today’s Wall Street Journal that Apple’s reputation for good design means customers trust it to fix mistakes:

Just a few days after Apple CEO Steve Jobs acknowledged that his company is not perfect, it posted quarterly results that nearly were. Sales jumped across the board—from its new iPad line to Macintosh computers. Even as the global economy sputters, Apple’s quarterly profits surged 78%. … Full Article at Wall Street Journal

 Jay Greene is the author of the new book Design Is How It Works: How the Smartest Companies Turn Products into Icons, on sale today.

For more information about the book, visit www.jaygreene.com.

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The Business Beat: Starting from Scratch

As featured in USA Today, our newest episode of “The Business Beat” is now live on Penguin’s website and on itunes.

Succeeding in business usually requires being able to figure things out for yourself. So Courtney Young and I sought out some experts at starting things from scratch.

In this episode, Portfolio president and publisher Adrian Zackheim discusses the growing DIY movement and why it matters for business. Boing Boing co-founder and Make magazine editor Mark Frauenfelder, author of the new book Made by Hand, talks about his do-it-yourself adventures and how anyone can benefit from attempting to make things from scratch. Power Friending author Amber Mac provides some very useful advice for anyone who’s trying to build up a strong social media presence—even if you’re totally new to the space. And 800-CEO-READ‘s Jack Covert discusses a must-read book for anyone who wants to start a business: Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start.

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