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    Finding the next Steve Jobs : how to find, keep, and nurture creative talent / Nolan Bushnell with Gene Stone.

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    • Title:Finding the next Steve Jobs : how to find, keep, and nurture creative talent / Nolan Bushnell with Gene Stone.
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    • Variant Title:How to find, hire, keep, and nurture creative talent
    • Author/Creator:Bushnell, Nolan, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Stone, Gene, 1951-
    • Published/Created:New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Creative ability in business.
      Corporate culture.
      Creative ability.
    • Medical Subjects: Organizational Culture
      Creativity
    • Edition:1st/This Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
    • Description:xxii, 229 pages ; 23 cm
    • Summary:A celebrated visionary and iconoclast, Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari before he went on to found Chuck E. Cheese{u2019}s and two dozen other companies. He also happened to launch the career of the late Steve Jobs, along with those of many other brilliant creatives over the course of his five decades in business. With refreshing candor, keen psychological insight, and robust humor, Bushnell explains in this book how to think boldly and differently about companies and organizations{u2014}and specifically the people who work within them. For anyone trying to turn a company into the next Atari or Apple, build a more creative workforce, or fashion a career in a changing world, this book will enlighten, challenge, surprise, and amuse.
    • Notes:Originally published: NetMinds, 2013.
    • ISBN:9781476759814 (hardcover)
      1476759812 (hardcover)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Finding and Hiring the Next Steve Jobs
      1. Make your workplace an advertisement for your company
      2. Adopt flexible pongs
      3. Advertise creatively
      4. Hire for passion and intensity
      5. Ignore credentials
      6. Look for hobbies
      7. Use employees as resources
      8. Avoid the clones
      9. Hire the obnoxious
      10. Hire the crazy
      11. Find the bullied
      12. Look for the lurkers
      13. Ask about books
      14. Sail a boat
      15. Hire under your nose
      16. Comb through tweets
      17. Visit creative communities
      18. Beware of poseurs
      19. Ask odd questions
      20. Conduct deep interviews
      II. Keeping and Nurturing the Next Steve Jobs
      21. Celebrate
      22. Institute a degree of anarchy
      23. Promote pranksterism
      24. Skunk it up
      25. Foster fairness
      26. Isolate
      27. Champion the bad ideas
      28. Celebrate failure
      29. Require risk
      30. Reward turkeys
      31. Mentor
      32. Treat employees as adults
      33. Create a creative chain
      34. Create a creative space
      35. Designate a demo day
      36. Encourage ADHD
      37. Preload
      38. Learn to talk creative
      39. Think toys
      40. Neutralize the naysayers
      41. Write down objections
      42. Take creatives to creative places
      43. Make something for the rich
      44. Change every day, every hour
      45. Throw the dice
      46. Duck processes
      47. Take a random walk through Wikipedia
      48. Don't count on accounting
      49. Invent haphazard holidays
      50. Mix it up
      51. Go to sleep
      52. Conclusion.
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