Gorillas Can Dance, Shameen Prashantham
Gorillas Can Dance, Shameen Prashantham
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Gorillas Can Dance
Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups

Author: Shameen Prashantham

Narrator: Emmanuel Chumaceiro

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/26/2021


Synopsis

Achieve exceptional results with your organization's next partnership for corporate innovation

In Gorillas Can Dance, distinguished international business strategy professor and expert Dr. Shameen Prashantham delivers a proven roadmap for large corporations collaborating with startups. Drawing on over a decade of international research, Dr. Prashantham explains the "why," "how," and "where" of corporate-startup partnering.

In this book, you'll learn:

● How to focus on the three pillars of synergy, interface, and exemplar to achieve outstanding results in your partnership

● Why the very thing that attracts large corporations to startups—their significant differences—also makes it difficult to work together

● Where in the world to find your ideal startup partnerships and how to use them as a force for good

Perfect for C-suite executives, managers, business unit heads, and corporate innovation managers, Gorillas Can Dance is a must-have resource for business leaders seeking strategic guidance on partnering and collaborating with startups.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufar

I don’t know why this book is not popular. I have finally understood why corporations have been rushing so much to embrace startups and creating a social impact. Also the book explains well about accelerators, startups, acquisitions and partnerships between them. Well-researched. Would recommend to st......more

Goodreads review by Ivo

Great book about how corporations can cooperate with startups, and why is so difficult sometimes. The author was close to watching companies like Microsoft, Bayer, Telefonica, BMW, Walmart, and Unilever, and was hoping to get it right. The book covers three areas and two dimensions in each: • Why. o Im......more

Good read, interesting case study about Microsoft.......more