Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (Exponential Technology Series)
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Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (Exponential Technology Series)

Paperback – February 23, 2016

Price
$11.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1476709581
Dimensions
5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches
Weight
10.4 ounces

Description

“ Bold is a visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world—and offers invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.” —President Bill Clinton "BOLD is an essential navigation tool for any proactive CEO who wants to remain relevant. In the next decade it is reasonable to assume that some of the corporations at the top of the Fortune 500 will be displaced by the 'exponential entrepreneur'. History tells us that if we don't proactively change and adapt, change will be imposed on us. BOLD, spells out the implications and opportunities driven by exponential changes transforming our world." —Jim Moffatt, CEO of U.S. Deloitte Consulting, LLP “ Abundance showed us where our world can be in 20 years. BOLD is a roadmap for entrepreneurs to help us get there.” —Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google “If you read one business book in the twenty-first century, this should be the one. When Peter and I cofounded Singularity University, we based it on the ideas of exponential change and ‘learn by doing.’ This book clearly explains how to apply these concepts to change the world and overcome the age old afflictions of human civilization.” —Ray Kurzweil, inventor, author, director of engineering at Google, Chancellor of Singularity University “In BOLD, Diamandis and Kotler have written another dazzler. A riveting look inside the world of exponential entrepreneurship—action-packed and action-oriented. I’ve purchased a copy for my entire team at Cisco." —Padmasree Warrior, CTO & Chief Strategy Office, CISCO “I loved Peter Diamandis’ and Steven Kotler’s book Abundance , their writing and their Vision. BOLD is an amazing sequel, a book that every entrepreneur should read. It is inspiring, filled with incredible insights and offers a practical how-to game plan for going big and impacting the world.” —Michael Dell, CEO, Dell Computers "Expressed with sunny optimism and promise, Diamandis and Kotler share their extensive experience and knowledge, hoping to boost innovative potential within the technology startup arena and inspire readers to "get off the couch and change the world." An empowering and multifaceted "playbook" for the creative entrepreneur." —Kirkus "This is a manual for today’s big thinkers to become tomorrow’s bold leaders, using crowd-powered tools accessible to everyone." —Booklist "This invigorating discussion drives home the point that with better tools than we've ever had before, what we need most of all are great leaders." —Publishers Weekly “It makes bold predictions and teaches entrepreneurs how to thrive in the same way as our mammalian ancestors: by being nimble and resilient.” —HuffingtonPost.com “The infectious optimism of Bold is inspirational.” — New York Times "DealBook" Blog "A guide to exponential digital chutzpah from a master of the art of ‘going big.’” —Financial Times Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is a New York Times bestselling author and the cofounder of Singularity University, Human Longevity, Inc., Celularity, Inc., and founder of Bold Capital Partners. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of XPRIZE. Diamandis has degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School.Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. His books include Stealing Fire , Bold , The Rise of Superman , Abundance , A Small Furry Prayer , Tomorrowland , West of Jesus , and Last Tango in Cyberspace . His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, has been translated into more than forty languages, and has appeared in over a hundred publications, including The New York Times Magazine , The Atlantic , Wired , Forbes , and Time .

Features & Highlights

  • “A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world—and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.” —President Bill Clinton
  • A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools,
  • Bold
  • unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are disrupting today’s Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from “I’ve got an idea” to “I run a billion-dollar company” far faster than ever before. The authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Part Two draws on insights from billionaires such as Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos and reveals their entrepreneurial secrets. Finally,
  • Bold
  • closes with a look at the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today’s hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, the authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and finally how to build communities—armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today’s entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true.

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Pardon me while I rework everything I thought I knew about entrepreneurship.

I have two issues with this book. First, it would have been a whole lot better if I known about it and read it much sooner. Secondly, every copy should be shipped with a complementary highlighter because if you are serious about entrepreneurship and creativity that will give you an edge in today's world and don't have photographic memory, you will ABSOLUTELY be going back and referencing specific ideas and passages. I got so tired of trying to remember all the little nuggets of wisdom that by the time I was halfway through the book, I turned back to the beginning of chapter 2 and started highlighting close to three-fifths of the text!

Plain-English explanations of how technology giants like Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks and Google tap ideas and make them work are in this book. Understanding of how to slide into a state of flow and make it work for you is there. How to utilize platforms of social media to get instant feedback on ideas and therefore rapidly evolve and improve them is right there. Seriously. This is a how-to-take-over-the-world guide for entrepreneurs that can be read and understood by a 12 year old wearing headphones.

If you are thinking of starting a business that could shake up the status-quo and possibly change the world (never mind starting an Etsy page, I'm talking moonshots here), then this book needs to be in your collection. And I don't just mean taking up space in a bookshelf. No. This book should be dogeared and scuffed; sitting atop your coffee table right next to your dried out highlighter and your plans for the next big thing to benefit humanity. And if you read this book and it doesn't radically redirect and focus your ambition, then you are either already a millionaire reading what you already know, or your copy was accidentally shipped without ink. Which I'm sure Amazon would happily replace.
10 people found this helpful
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The more I read Bold and hear the stories of ...

The more I read Bold and hear the stories of Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson, as well as Peter Diamandis' own story, I begin itching to make monumental change. His 10x mentality for growth and innovation is exactly what is needed in every field. After reading this book, I crafted my own massively transformative purpose (MTP) based on my passions. If you are looking to be inspired, and then learn exactly what steps to follow to make something big happen, you need to read Bold by Peter Diamandis!
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This Book Changed Our Lives

I have been a fan of X-Prize for many years. We have a very successful career and organization development company. But, I felt we needed to reinvent the business to meet the needs of a world that is vastly different from 1990. Bold helped us produce a radical and compelling new vision and we are in the midst of build a new business that will indeed, change the world. This book ought to be read by everyone who works and certainly for anyone who owns a business.

David Harder - President, Inspired Work & Workskunk
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Thought-Provoking and Very Useful Info, Although a Bit Dry

"Bold" is one of the most thought-provoking business books I've read in a long time. Most of us know how the information age and the internet has up-ended the industrial age, and I think I'm savvy to the implications and opportunities, but I learned several valuable tools that I previously did not know even existed.

The book opens with a lesson, and this sentence I highlighted: "Thus, on April 9, 2012, just three months after Kodak filed for bankruptcy, Instagram and its 13 employees were bought by Facebook for $1 billion."

How does that happen. Kodak was obviously positioned to lead on digital photography; they even had developed some of the early technology. But they lacked vision, they had hubris, they worried about losing all that film and chemical business. They did not see the forest for the trees. We see that now. But most do not see it still happening today. Jeff Bezos had the vision for Amazon. It wasn't about books long-term; it was about everything. Today, look at Amazon and look at the long-dethroned Sears catalog. The difference is taught and/or reinforced in this book. Co-Author Diamandis is currently executive chairman of Planetary Resources, a company planning to mine asteroids for precious metals. Sound crazy to you? As Diamandis said in an interview, "Listen, the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea." No doubt the folks in the executive suite of companies like Barnes and Noble thought selling books on the internet was a crazy, outlandish idea.

Why didn't Hilton or Marriott think of AirBnB? Besides vision, "Bold" goes into the 6Ds -- from democratize to deceptive, each a step in the evolution of an industry that the established businesses -- that is, their leaders -- miss. A particular telling graphic in the book shows how $900,000 worth of equipment/application can now be accessed in your smart phone, much of it for free. This is the 3rd D, Demonetization.

Of course, a big part of formula is that "linear companies" (like Kodak) "with lots of employees and lots of physical processes and facilities" is being impacted by "exponential companies" (like Instagram) with their "use of networks or automation and/or its leveraging of the crowd. The rest of the book focuses on how to build the later, with some tools/exponential technologies, and examples of people using them. For example, Quirky and Kickstarter. If you can't figure out how to build a business after learning about all of these resources, you may just not have the vision yourself.

The book can be dry in parts. Like many tech-focused people, the authors like to use dry technical jargon (the 6 Ds come to mind); or when they say creativity is "recombinatory." I prefer how James Altucher says it: "idea sex" -- combining two or more things to create a new thing/business. Because of the dry language it took me longer than usual to finish it. But I'm glad I did.
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Very inspirational with the exponential solutions to humanity’s grand challenges.

The solutions to the world's grand challenges are out there. They exist, and they are within our reach. But we must take action now if we want to make a difference. Innovation is the key to unlocking these solutions. We must be bold in our thinking and be willing to embrace new ideas and technologies. We must also be willing to take risks and fail. But if we are successful, the rewards will be great. We will make a difference in the world and create a better future for us. So let's get started. Let's find those solutions. Let's make a difference.
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Love this book

Love this book. It is inspiring and haas changed the way I will run my current business this year and sorted out our ways to launch our new one. Very grateful to the authors for sharing all of this information.
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Starts Out Promising, Ends as an Infomercial

I wanted to really like this. It starts out being very inspiring. But by the end you realize they are just trying to sell their services at a premium price, and the website they recommend you go to that they say is filled with helpful content no longer exists (just three years after the book was written). I tried contacting both authors about this issue and neither responded to queries.
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This book is already outdated

This book is already outdated.
I enjoyed the chapter on exponential technology but the rest of the book is just what was hot in 2014-2015. Things like crowdfunding & 3D Printing. If this book were written any other year, it would include whatever the hype was of that year. Then it tries to give how-to advice by describing the hot trends in that area like GoogleX and Design thinking.

This book really just felt like a compilation of all things trendy in 2014/2015.
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... book is dense but it does make me feel like I can take risks and be Bold

This book is dense but it does make me feel like I can take risks and be Bold.
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Will change the way you do business from m the first chapter.

I have both the book and the audio version. The audio version is a lot easier to understand. I keep it in my car and it never leaves. I highly recommend you buy this product, listen to it and then look at how you do business.
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