Creative Intelligence: Discovering the Innovative Potential in Ourselves and Others: Alan J. Rowe

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Advanced praise for Creative Intelligence– “Organizations will not be in the phone book five to seven years fromnow unless they understand the significance of creativity and creativeleadership. Rowe’s useful and readable book provides rich insightsabout how creativity affects the bottom line.” –Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor [...]

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer: Charles J. Murray

The story of supercomputing is only partially about technology. More than anything, it’s about the gifted, brilliant, and often eccentric individuals who knew how to use that technology in new ways to do amazing things. Perhaps the most amazing of the bunch was Seymour Cray, the bureaucracy-intolerant genius with [...]

Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980 (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century): David A. Hounshell, John Kenly Smith

Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the [...]

Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980 (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century): David A. Hounshell, John Kenly Smith

Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the [...]

The Valley of Heart’s Delight: A Silicon Valley Notebook, 1963-2001: Michael S. Malone

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HOMETOWN BOY TELLS TALE OF HOW TECH REVOLUTION CHANGED WHERE WE LIVE
Michael S. Malone proudly casts himself as a native son of Silicon Valley.
In his latest book, he declares himself a “hometown boy” who is [...]

From Memex To Hypertext: James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn

Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world’s most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush’s Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush’s essays, and original essays by [...]

The Biggest Game of All : The Inside Strategies, Tactics, and Temperaments That Make Great Dealmakers Great: Leo Hindery, Leslie Cauley

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Hindery, the CEO of the YES Network, the New York Yankees’ cable channel, has handled some 250 deals in his 25-year career with considerable success. Along the way he’s learned lessons like “do more homework than the other guy” and “read the fine print.” [...]

Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World: Henry Kressel, Thomas V. Lento

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“Drawing on a lifetime of experience in the industry, the authors offer some answers and also explain how the industry base can flourish against lower wage competition.” -Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment
Everybody knows that digital technology has revolutionized our economy and [...]

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything: Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The word “wiki” means “quick” in Hawaiian, and here author and think tank CEO Tapscott (The Naked Corporation), along with research director Williams, paint in vibrant colors the quickly changing world of Internet togetherness, also known as mass or global collaboration, and what those [...]

Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World: Henry Kressel, Thomas V. Lento

Editorial Reviews
Review
“Drawing on a lifetime of experience in the industry, the authors offer some answers and also explain how the industry base can flourish against lower wage competition.” -Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment
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