Thanks dear reader for the book recommendation...
Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.
A reader sent me this nice note:
You may already know it, but it was new to me. It’s called The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky.
It’s a series of short chapters, in the guru-talks-to-novice form, each covering a different model of profitability. Good stuff. My favorite was the chapter called “Blockbuster Profit,” on Marc Geron. Having grown up at Xerox PARC, and now spending all my time studying & doing theatre laboratories, I was almost jumping out of my skin to read about a guy who had figured out how to both nurture and optimize R&D. It’s the first time I’d read about something which kept the strengths of PARC or MIT, but improved on the financial viability. Most places kill or starve the goose in their frantic lunge for the golden eggs.
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I immediately went to Amazon and bought it. Look for my impressions soon. Thanks and keep the ideas coming!!!!