The Self-made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value - Tapa dura

--T. BOONE PICKENS, Chairman, BP Capital Management

"A fabulous profile of value creation that all organizations need to ponder as they build talent for the future."

--THOMAS COLLIGAN, former Vice Dean and Director, Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The Wharton School

"Fresh, provocative and insightful, The Self-made Billionaire Effect will challenge your thinking about how entrepreneurs succeed in creating mega-hit businesses. This is a racy read, where storytelling and personalities carry some important lessons to be considered and applied even for those working in stable and slower-growth businesses."

--DONALD J. GOGEL, Chairman and CEO, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.

"This well-researched, fun-to-read book provides top management with a set of insights vital for finding and keeping the talent needed to design and deliver breakthrough value."

--LINDA A. HILL, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and coauthor of Collective Genius

"John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen have mined a rich vein--self-made billionaires--in an attempt to find common patterns. What I particularly admire is their nuanced insights: these men and women are not solitary, risk seeking, creative, overnight successes. They work in teams; they manage risks and rewards; they are as good at execution as they are at ideation; and they have been on roller coasters, not rocket ships. Their wisdom is invaluable for entrepreneurs and managers. I recommend it highly."
--WILLIAM A. SAHLMAN, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and coauthor of New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur

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