From Incremental to Exponential, Vivek Wadhwa
From Incremental to Exponential, Vivek Wadhwa
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

From Incremental to Exponential
How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation

Author: Vivek Wadhwa, Ismail Amla, Alex Salkever

Narrator: James Gillies

Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/06/2020


Synopsis

"This timely book reminds us that innovation is agnostic about where it's created."
-Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

Over and over, we see big legacy businesses getting beaten to the punch by energetic little start-ups. It seems like innovation can come from only the bottom up or from outside in. But tech experts Vivek Wadwha, Ismail Amla, and Alex Salkever are here to tell you that "big equals slow and stodgy" is a myth. Based on decades of experience working with the world's leading brands and start-ups, they explore the opportunity legacy companies have to create new markets, supercharge growth, and remake their businesses by combining the scrappy mind-set and tool belt of hypergrowth start-ups with the massive benefits of incumbency: boatloads of customer data, decades of brand equity, robust distribution channels, enormous financial asserts, and more. Equally important, they provide a playbook on how to use their insights in your own company, team, or career. This is a fast-paced, anecdote-rich story that rethinks modern innovation-a book every manager, executive, and ambitious employee will want to read.

About Vivek Wadhwa

VIVEK WADHWA is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering at Silicon Valley. He is the co-author of Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain - and How to Fight Back; The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent; and Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology. He has held appointments at Duke University, Stanford Law School, Emory University, and Singularity University. ALEX SALKEVER is a writer, futurist, and technology leader. He has served as a senior executive at a number of Silicon Valley startups and as a senior leader at respected brands in technology, most recently at Mozilla, where he served as a vice president.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sachetan on February 28, 2021

The book describes stories, anecdotes about why some companies are successful whereas some companies fail miserably. The book offers many examples, most of them are familiar stories, mostly celebrated by each one of us who are tracking business landscape of tech companies. Like numerous books on the......more

Goodreads review by Arun on April 10, 2021

Great storyline. Fabulous examples on various companies......more

Goodreads review by Finn on April 25, 2023

Useful business and innovation learnings......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 26, 2021

Very engaging read with an ‘all you can eat’ platter of Silicon Valley case studies to understand the importance of being strategically fit for growth in modern business world.......more

Goodreads review by Melodie on January 02, 2024

Some good and interesting business case studies.......more