Finding the Next Steve Jobs
How to Find, Hire, Keep, and Nurture Creative Talent
Number of pages: 252
Publisher: Net Minds
BBB Library: Creativity and Innovation, Human Resources
ISBN: 9780988879515
Editorial Review
Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari and two dozen other companies. He also launched Steve Jobs' career, along with those of many other brilliant creatives over the course of his five decades in business. In his eagerly awaited first book, Bushnell explains how to find, hire, and nurture the people who could turn your company into the next Atari or the next Apple. The business world is changing faster than ever, and every day your company faces new complications and difficulties. The only way to resolve these issues is to have a staff of wildly creative people who live as much in the future as in the present, who thrive on being different, and whose ideas will guarantee that your company will prosper when other companies fail.
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