Finding the Next Steve Jobs, Nolan Bushnell
Finding the Next Steve Jobs, Nolan Bushnell
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Finding the Next Steve Jobs
How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent

Author: Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone

Narrator: Joseph C. Wilson

Unabridged: 4 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2013

Synopsis

From the legendary founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s and Steve Jobs’s first boss, the secrets to finding, hiring, keeping, and nurturing creative talent.The business world is changing faster than ever, and every day your company faces new complications and difficulties. The only way to resolve these issues is to have a staff of wildly creative people who live as much in the future as the present, who thrive on being different, and whose ideas will guarantee that your company will prosper when other companies fail.A celebrated visionary and iconoclast, Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari before he went on to found Chuck E. Cheese’s and two dozen other companies. He also happened to launch the career of the late Steve Jobs, along with those of many other bril­liant creatives over the course of his five decades in business.With refreshing candor, keen psychological insight, and robust humor, Bushnell explains in Finding the Next Steve Jobs how to think boldly and differently about companies and organizations—and spe­cifically the people who work within them. For anyone trying to turn a company into the next Atari or Apple, build a more creative workforce, or fashion a career in a changing world, this book will enlighten, challenge, surprise, and amuse.

About Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, and engineer. Often cited as the father of the video-game industry, he is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre. His new company, Brainrush, draws on the latest developments in brain science to improve the educational process. He lives in Los Angeles.

About Gene Stone

Gene Stone, a former book, magazine, and newspaper editor for such companies as the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Harcourt Brace, and Simon & Schuster, has ghostwritten thirty books (many of which were New York Times bestsellers) for a wide range of people in many different fields. Stone has also written numerous titles under his own name, including The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick, which has been translated into more than twenty languages; the New York Times bestseller Forks Over Knives; and The Watch, the definitive book on the wristwatch.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Yeshasvi

I got this book as a Christmas gift when the secret Santa event was organized in my last company. I was so happy that i got a "book" (probably the happiest person on the floor) and now after reading it i am happier that i got "this book". I am almost sure that i myself would not have picked up this......more

Goodreads review by Jose

This book should become a must read for HR Professionals and also for anyone participating on hiring interview loops. Gives many tips about what to know about job candidates and also a fundamental part: how to nurture and keep creative and A talent in your company.......more

Goodreads review by Matt

A couple of months ago after church, the Reverend Evan Jones pulled me aside and told me, excitedly, about a book I should read. (In addition to being a man of the cloth, Evan is both a good friend and reader I trust.) "OK," he said, pausing for effect, "have you ever heard of Nolan Bushnell?" "No.........more

Goodreads review by Matt

I met Nolan Bushnell a few weeks ago and found him inspiring enough that I immediately checked this book out from the library. The man himself is more interesting than the book - although the book is not without its merits. For one, it’s extremely easy to read, with ideas organized into short chapte......more

Goodreads review by Richard

At first I was disappointed with this book because I thought I’ll find more anecdotes about Steve Jobs as the title was suggesting. But after about 5 chapters, I realized that this is not just about Steve Jobs (actually the best biography about Jobs is written by Walter Isaacson, check it out) but a......more

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