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    Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor
    Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor
    Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor
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    Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor

    Written by Michael Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott

    Narrated by Rick Adamson

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    Innovate Like Edison presents Edison’s world-changing innovation methods as a cohesive, practical, and immediately applicable system. Based on three years of research, Innovate Like Edison offers readers an in-depth view of Edison’s comprehensive innovation approach – an analysis which has never previously been documented. Readers will learn to apply Edison’s Five Competencies of Innovation™ either to their work lives or their personal lives, following the timeless principles Edison used to generate his record-breaking 1,093 U.S. patents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2007
    ISBN9781593163877
    Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor
    Author

    Michael Gelb

    Michael J. Gelb is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. With more than 20 years experience as a professional speaker, seminar leader and organizational consultant, he leads seminars for companies including BP, Nike, and Microsoft, as well as various executive education programmes.

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    • 5/5
      Great Book, many useful, practicle steps towards innovating anything.... today!
    • 5/5
      Very nice primer on Edison's approach to Innovation. The author makes it relevant to the current day and age by providing snippets of useful information at regular intervals.
    • 4/5
      Gelb's work definitely contains some valuable "self-help" nuggets that can be applied to general problem-solving. One such nugget involves Edison's use of mind-maps that help individuals physically "chart" strategies for tackling problems. The book focuses on how "failure" is often critical to future success and how optimism can shape results. It also explores some of Edison's well-known mantras (example: make everything as simple as possible -- but no any simpler). In all candor, some of the book was a bit dry and seemed unnecessarily redundant in a few spots -- and I'm a big fan of business books. But overall, I'm glad I took the time to read it.
    • 4/5
      Innovate Like EdisonI am not normally very interested in self-help/business books, but someone gave me this book so I decided to give it a try. I’m glad I did because it gave me a few things to think about and work on. Basically Innovate Like Edison is about how to use creative problem solving in today’s business world to get ahead. One of the most interesting points the book covered is that people who are optimistic are generally more successful then people who are pessimistic. It goes into some detail as to why this is and explains how you can be or act more optimistic. I found most of the ideas in this book to be simple, straight-forward, and logical. I also enjoyed the interesting bits of Edison’s history, he was truly an extraordinary man!I listened to this book on audio. The audio version allowed me to take in the material in a less labor intensive way. Sometimes listening to a book like this makes it easier to filter out the ideas that interest me without getting too hung up on the ideas that are less applicable to my situation. I would definitely recommend this book as a great way to get a fresh perspective on how to be more creative in a more productive way at work.