The Creators Code, Amy Wilkinson
The Creators Code, Amy Wilkinson
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The Creator's Code
The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

Author: Amy Wilkinson

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/17/2015


Synopsis

Based on in-depth interviews with more than 200 leading entrepreneurs, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business identifies the six essential disciplines needed to transform your ideas into real-world successes.

Each of us has the capacity to spot opportunities, invent products, and build businesses—even $100 million businesses.

How do some people turn ideas into enterprises that endure? Why do some people succeed when so many others fail? The Creator’s Code unlocks the six essential skills that turn small notions into big companies. This landmark book is based on 200 interviews with today’s leading entrepreneurs including the founders of LinkedIn, Chipotle, eBay, Under Armour, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Spanx, Airbnb, PayPal, Jetblue, Gilt Groupe, Theranos, and Dropbox.

Over the course of five years, Amy Wilkinson conducted rigorous interviews and analyzed research across many different fields. From the creators of the companies ranging from Yelp to Chobani to Zipcar, she found that entrepreneurial success works in much the same way. Creators are not born with an innate ability to conceive and build $100 million enterprises. They work at it. They all share fundamental skills that can be learned, practiced, and passed on.

The Creator’s Code reveals six skills that make creators of all kinds of endeavors breakthrough. These skills aren’t rare gifts or slim chance talents. Entrepreneurship, Wilkinson demonstrates, is accessible to everyone.

About Amy Wilkinson

Amy Wilkinson is a strategic adviser, entrepreneur, and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She frequently addresses corporate, association, and university audiences on entrepreneurial leadership. She also advises startups and large corporations on innovation and business strategy. Her career spans leadership roles with McKinsey & Company and JP Morgan and as founder of a small foreign-based export company. Wilkinson has served as a White House Fellow in the Office of the United States Trade Representative and as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Learn more about her work at AmyWilkinson.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi

For The Creator's Code, Amy Wilkinson interviewed over 200 wildly successful entrepreneurs and narrowed down the skills that they used to create their businesses to an "essential" six. These essentials are the keys to the "creator's code," she writes. My favorite chapter from The Creator's Code is Cha......more

Goodreads review by Ana

Quick read, to the point, with plenty of relevant anecdotes. (view spoiler)[ 1. FIND THE GAP By staying alert, creators spot opportunities that others don’t see. They keep their eyes open for fresh potential, a vacuum to fill, or an unmet need. Creators tend to use one of three distinct techniques: transplanting id (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Brandon

A fine business history of specific entrepreneurs. The framework for the "code" is a nice summarization, but nothing ground breaking. The 4 stars is more for the freshness and diversity of the entrepreneur set, but also for the last section relating to small givings of time and effort and how that b......more

Some people dream of starting their own company, but few actually live those dreams. Too many dreamers wait for that perfect moment to launch their idea, but end up waiting forever.. This book may help.......more

Goodreads review by Victor

Learn how to start a business, plus how to look out for problems to be solved in this book. It has a lot of anecdotes driving really basic, but commonly overlooked points. Perfect for any budding entrepreneurs.......more