The Silicon Valley Model: Management for Entrepreneurship (Management for Professionals Book 0)

"This book presents a new management model that has evolved in Silicon Valley. The future will favor companies that can migrate to a management model, better suited for the times. The abilities to remain entrepreneurial and innovate constantly will be essential for all companies in an innovation economy. However, most firms still use industrial-age management models that are not suited to attracting and energizing entrepreneurial talent. This book imbibes latest results from a year-long study of Google's approaches to management, and finds similar principles being applied at companies including, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tesla Motors, and Apigee. By distilling on the aspects that work across a variety of innovative firms, the authors present a synthesis that could have profound implications for managers everywhere."--Page 4 of cover Annotation This text presents a new management model that has evolved in Silicon Valley. The future will favour companies that can migrate to a management model, better suited for the times. The abilities to remain entrepreneurial and innovate constantly will be essential for all companies in an innovation economy. However, most firms still use industrial-age management models that are not suited to attracting and energizing entrepreneurial talent. This book imbibes the latest results from a year-long study of Google's approaches to management, and finds similar principles being applied at companies including, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tesla Motors, and Apigee. By distilling on the aspects that work across a variety of innovative firms, the authors present a synthesis that could have profound implications for managers everywhere This book presents a new management model that has evolved in Silicon Valley.℗lThe future will favor companies that can migrate to a management model, better suited for the times.℗lThe abilities to remain entrepreneurial and innovate constantly will be essential for all companies in an innovation economy. However, most firms still use industrial-age management models that are not suited to attracting and energizing entrepreneurial talent.℗lThis book imbibes latest results from a year-long study of Googleĺls approaches to management, and finds similar principles being applied at companies including, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tesla Motors, and Apigee. By distilling on the aspects that work across a variety of innovative firms, the authors present a synthesis that could have profound implications for managers everywhere Front Matter....Pages i-xv The World Is Changing....Pages 1-17 Six Basic Principles for a Changing World....Pages 19-35 Silicon Valley: A Cradle of Management Innovation....Pages 37-51 Entrepreneurship: What It Really Is, and Why It Must Be Integrated into Management of the Firm....Pages 53-63 A Special Breed of People....Pages 65-85 Culture: The New Black....Pages 87-104 Leading for Entrepreneurship....Pages 105-120 The Entrepreneurial Organization Is Dynamic and Ambidextrous....Pages 121-142 The Silicon Valley Model....Pages 143-155 Implications Beyond Silicon Valley....Pages 157-171