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浪潮之巅(第四版)(上下册) 豆瓣
9.2 (13 个评分) 作者: 吴军 人民邮电出版社 2019 - 6
这不只是一部科技产业发展历史集……
更是在这个智能时代,一部IT人非读不可,而非IT人也应该阅读的作品。
一个企业的发展与崛起,绝非只是空有领导强人即可达成。任何的决策、同期的商业环境、各种能量的此消彼长,也在影响着企业的兴衰。《浪潮之巅》不只是一部历史书 ,除了讲 述 科技顶尖企业的发展规律, 对于华尔街如何左右科技公司,以及金融风暴对科技产业的冲击,也多有着墨。
《浪潮之巅 第四版》新增了6章内容,探讨硅谷不竭的创新精神究竟源自何处,进一步从工业革命的范式、生产关系的革命等角度深入全面阐述信息产业的规律性。从而,借助对信息时代公司管理特点进行的系统分析,对下一代科技产业浪潮给出判断和预测。
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第四版增加了大约1/4的章节,包括:
·“八叛徒与硅谷”(关于罗伊斯、摩尔等“八叛徒”创办仙童公司,开创全世界半导体产业的事迹);
·“社交网络和Facebook”(以Facebook为核心,介绍社交网络的起源、发展和商业规律);
·“生产关系的革命”(介绍硅谷企业独到的管理特点,特别是企业中新型的人与人的关系,以及较为合理的分配制度);
·“汽车革命”(以特斯拉和字母表(Alphabet)旗下的Waymo为核心,介绍电动汽车和无人驾驶汽车产业);
·“工业革命和颠覆式创新的范式”(介绍从第一次工业革命开始,历次工业革命的规律性);
·“信息时代的科学基础”(介绍信息时代企业做事方法背后的科学基础和方法论,控制论、系统论和信息论在管理中的应用)。
任天堂哲学 豆瓣 Goodreads
7.2 (19 个评分) 作者: (日) 井上理著 译者: 郑敏译 南海出版公司 2018 - 6
美国《福布斯》杂志“世界最有价值品牌”
美国《商业周刊》“世界最杰出公司”
连续两年获技术与工程艾美奖
从小纸牌工坊到全球游戏产业霸主,任天堂走过了130年,依然充满活力。凭借对市场的敏感和创意,任天堂不断地推出划时代的产品,新一代游戏机Switch被美国《时代》杂志评为“2017十大科技产品”之首,排名超过苹果iPhoneX。
一家百年企业为何始终引领着世界娱乐产业的发展方向?本书全方位呈现了任天堂以创意为先导的核心价值观,解读伟大的构想如何帮助企业抢占先机,占领市场;如何获取灵感,将天才创意变成产品;如何通过管理创新激活组织和员工,提高经营效率。
Becoming Steve Jobs 豆瓣
9.2 (5 个评分) 作者: Brent Schlender / Rick Tetzeli Crown Business 2015 - 3
There have been many books—on a large and small scale—about Steve Jobs, one of the most famous CEOs in history. But this book is different from all the others.
Becoming Steve Jobs takes on and breaks down the existing myth and stereotypes about Steve Jobs. The conventional, one-dimensional view of Jobs is that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an irascible and selfish leader who slighted friends and family alike. Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple cofounder and CEO: How did a young man so reckless and arrogant that he was exiled from the company he founded become the most effective visionary business leader of our time, ultimately transforming the daily life of billions of people?
Drawing on incredible and sometimes exclusive access, Schlender and Tetzeli tell a different story of a real human being who wrestled with his failings and learned to maximize his strengths over time. Their rich, compelling narrative is filled with stories never told before from the people who knew Jobs best, and who decided to open up to the authors, including his family, former inner circle executives, and top people at Apple, Pixar and Disney, most notably Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Eddy Cue, Ed Catmull, John Lasseter, Robert Iger and many others. In addition, Brent knew Jobs personally for 25 years and draws upon his many interviews with him, on and off the record, in writing the book. He and Rick humanize the man and explain, rather than simply describe, his behavior. Along the way, the book provides rich context about the technology revolution we all have lived through, and the ways in which Jobs changed our world.
Schlender and Tetzeli make clear that Jobs's astounding success at Apple was far more complicated than simply picking the right products: he became more patient, he learned to trust his inner circle, and discovered the importance of growing the company incrementally rather than only shooting for dazzling game-changing products.
A rich and revealing account that will change the way we view Jobs, Becoming Steve Jobs shows us how one of the most colorful and compelling figures of our times was able to combine his unchanging, relentless passion with a more mature management style to create one of the most valuable and beloved companies on the planet.
Creativity, Inc. 豆瓣 Goodreads Goodreads
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
8.9 (10 个评分) 作者: Ed Catmull / Amy Wallace Random House 2014 - 4
Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation Studios—into the story meetings, the postmortems, and the “Braintrust” sessions where art is born. It is, at heart, a book about how to build and sustain a creative culture—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.”
For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner twenty-seven Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Now, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques, honed over years, that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable.
As a young man, Catmull had a dream: to make the world’s first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream first as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged an early partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later and against all odds, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed, all of which debuted at #1 at the box office—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and ideas that defy convention, such as:
• Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.
• If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
• It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them.
• The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
• A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.
• Do not assume that general agreement will lead to change—it takes substantial energy to move a group, even when all are on board.
Advance praise for Creativity, Inc.
“Many have attempted to formulate and categorize inspiration and creativity. What Ed Catmull shares instead is his astute experience that creativity isn’t strictly a well of ideas but an alchemy of people. In Creativity, Inc., Ed reveals, with commonsense specificity and honesty, examples of how not to get in your own way and realize a creative coalescence of art, business, and innovation.”—George Lucas
Shoe Dog 豆瓣
8.5 (6 个评分) 作者: Phil Knight Scribner 2016 - 4
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.
But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.
Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything.
The Innovators 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: [美国] 沃尔特·艾萨克森 Simon & Schuster 2014 - 10
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?
In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.
This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.
For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.