Practically Radical, William C. Taylor
Practically Radical, William C. Taylor
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Practically Radical
Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself

Author: William C. Taylor

Narrator: Loren Lester

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 01/04/2011


Synopsis

“The most powerful and instructive change manual you’ll ever read. It will persuade and inspire you to change your business, your work, and maybe your life.”
—Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of A Whole New Mind In Practically Radical, William C. Taylor, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mavericks at Work offers a refreshing, rigorous new look at pragmatic ways to shake things up and make positive change in difficult times. Anything but your typical business book, Practically Radical is a must-own for small business owners and CEOs, for managers at all levels, and innovators and entrepreneurs of every stripe.

About William C. Taylor

William C. Taylor is a cofounder of Fast Company and coauthor (with Polly LaBarre) of Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win. A graduate of Princeton University and the MIT Sloan School of Management, he hosts a blog on being ""Practically Radical"" on HarvardBusiness Online. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan

This is fine as a pop management book looking at a lot of companies, plus some nonprofits and government entities, that found success doing things differently. Some of the examples Taylor offers are actually pretty interesting. Zappos has been written about plenty already, but it really is an intere......more

Goodreads review by Zohreh

As the other readers reviewed this book is full of real world examples that very good and useful ,by the way i found some advices about backing to humanity values to find the profits in our business . نويسنده كتاب صاحب امتياز مجله شركتهاي سريع است،كتاب سراسر مثال هايي از نحوه رشد شركتهاي حال حاضر همه......more

Goodreads review by Jim

The Appendix is the most valuable part of the book. A tremendous amount of research was done for the book and the "real world" stories are excellent. Tough to slog thru in the middle, but the questions posed in the Appendix make up for it. Recommended for any leader looking for the way to innovate i......more

Goodreads review by Adriaan

In ''Practically Radical'', William Taylor, co-founder of the magazine ''Fast Company'', presents a diverse set of case studies, from police departments to hospitals, from start-ups that can only exist because of crowdfunding to established industry giants such as IBM that use open innovation to def......more

Goodreads review by Felipe

This books gives great tips and examples to boost your business. He key to victory, according to Sun Tzu is engaging your opponent on your own terms, and if you can't prevent conflict, choose the battlefield, redefining the terrain instead of trying to outcompete your rivals (like TBWA did when they......more