Real Leaders Don't Follow [electronic resource] : Being Extraordinary in the Age of the Entrepreneur

Leaders Lead. Followers Follow. You Can't Do Both. Acknowledging the great irony that most of today's inspiring entrepreneurs are following the crowd instead of doing what innovative leaders like Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk did to become successful, Silicon Valley management consultant Steve Tobak delivers some truth: Nobody ever made it big by doing what everyone else is doing. Drawing upon decades of personal experience with hundreds of accomplished entrepreneurs, CEOs, and venture capitalists, Tobak provides a unique perspective on today's technology revolution, exposes popular myths that masquerade as common wisdom and shows you what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and an exceptional business leaders in today's highly competitive world. The advent of Web 2.0 the Internet as a platform for user-generated content and applications along with social networks and smart mobile devices changed everything. It changed how we interact. It changed our behavior. It changed how we live. Those who came of age during this remarkable technological and cultural change were dubbed the entrepreneurial generation for a reason. It's their collective dream to use this newfound technology-enabled platform to rule their own destiny, realize their dreams and change the world. Sounds great on paper, but that's not what's happening in the real world. Ac "Acknowledging the great irony that today's aspiring entrepreneurs are doing exactly the opposite of what Branson, Zuckerberg, and all other great entrepreneurs and executives they strive to emulate did, Steve Tobak delivers some truth: Nobody ever made it big by doing what everyone else is doing. Then, he delivers solutions"-- Provided by publisher