Always day one : how the tech titans stay on top
Kantrowitz, Alex2020
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An acclaimed tech reporter reveals the inner workings of the most powerful companies in the world, taking you behind the scenes with Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella. At Amazon, "Day One" is code for working inventively and urgently, as if it were the first day of your startup. Day Two is, in Bezos's own words, is "stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death." Amazon and its fellow tech giants are under fire for their size and power, but there's more to their story than anti-competitive practices and tax avoidance. These companies have kept ahead of the competition by embracing a new leadership model, one built for an age where companies can spin up new products and services at record speed. On the inside, these tech giants operate nothing like the corporate giants of the past -- like Exxon and GM -- which built core advantages and did everything they could to defend them. For these new goliaths, it's always day one. They are in a constant state of reinvention despite their massive size, understanding that once you become obsessed with the past, you will miss the future. Always Day One takes you deep inside these companies, revealing the uncommon cultures and leadership practices that have kept them from being picked apart by smaller, nimbler competitors. It details how their CEOs will do away with any obstacle blocking the free flow of ideas within their companies, how they're creating systems to bring the best of these ideas to life, and how they're using advanced workplace technology to make it all possible. Kantrowitz reveals a new model propelling their dominance at a stage when most big companies begin to decline. And he shows the way forward for anyone who wants to compete with -- and beat -- the existing tech giants.
Main title:
Always day one : how the tech titans stay on top / Alex Kantrowitz.
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Imprint:
[UK] : Penguin Business is part of the Penguin Random House Group, 2020
Collation:
261 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published in the United States of America by Portfolio Penguin 2020.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Ideas vs. Execution -- Miracles in Miami -- The Engineer's Mindset -- When Things Speed Up -- 1.Inside Jeff Bezos's Culture of Invention -- Meet Amazon's Science Fiction Writers -- Jeff Bezos's Robot Employees -- Hands off the Wheel -- Life After Yoda -- Insist on the Highest Standards -- "That Article" -- Outputs -- 2.Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Culture of Feedback -- Facebook the Vulnerable -- Building a Feedback Culture -- Pathways -- Facebook's Day One -- From Broadcast to Private -- "The Most Chinese Company in Silicon Valley" -- Enter the Machines -- Robot Compensation -- New Inputs -- Facebook's Next Reinvention -- 3.Inside Sundar Pichai's Culture of Collaboration -- The Hive Mind -- The Toolbar Episode -- The Path to Chrome -- The Shift -- The Split -- Al Answers -- The Great Reinvention -- Uprising -- Exodus -- 4.Tim Cook and the Apple Question -- A Culture of Refinement -- The Refiner's Mindset -- Silos and Secrecy -- "A Form That's Right" -- The HomePod Debacle -- Hands on the Wheel -- The IS&T Problem -- Face-off -- A Drive down 280 -- 5.Satya Nadella and the Microsoft Case Study -- Nadella's Day One -- Democratic Invention -- Constraint-free Hierarchy -- Collaboration -- Microsoft's New Decade -- 6.A Look into the Black Mirror -- Always Black Mirror -- "The Dystopia Is Now" -- The Erosion of Meaning -- From Doomsday to Disneyland? -- 7.The Leader of the Future -- "Something New Wouldn't Hurt" -- The New Education -- Caring -- Watching the Al -- The Case for Thoughtful Invention -- Onward.
ISBN:
978059308348297802414590589780241459034
Dewey class:
338.76004338.7
Language:
English
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BRN:
372689
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business | 338.7 KAN | Available |