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Cargando... Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way (1998 original; edición 1999)por Richard Branson (Autor)
Información de la obraLosing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way por Richard Branson (1998)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Short and fun stories of starting out. Mixes in his adventures with business deals, and you get a sense of how lucky and instinctual he is. ( ) I read this autobiography because I heard Branson interviewed on the Freakonomics podcast. He had made a comment that he was dyslexic and dropped out of school. He seemed to suggest that struggling students don't really need school to succeed as he did. This raised a question for me: So how do you start a company with a reading disability? The question really wasn't answered but he did surround himself in the early days with smart friends who helped first with the publication Student and then starting Virgin Records. It is an entertaining, sometimes enlightening read but got repetitive. Richard Branson is one of the most respectful businessmen of our era and by the looks of it, the kind of a businessman who takes care of his employees and makes sure they get all the benefits they can get, but he's also the kind of a businessman that shall never change and always remain the same, always living on the edge throughout his life by always following his philosophy. Which isn't a bad thing at all, for each and everyone of us should enjoy life, however, we should also value life for what it is, a gift that was given to us by an unknown force to make the best of it and take advantage of our limitless potential. And that's exactly what this man's doing, and what makes this man remarkable. A pretty bland memoir. There are some gems in it, though, and Branson is an impressive businessman. Most of the companies mentioned I'd never heard of, so it was interesting to see the range of Branson's brand venture capital investments. He presents himself as having consistent vision and values. I liked learning some of the business details behind Virgin Music and Virgin Airlines. The problem is that it is not very cohesive. Branson himself doesn't have a long attention span, and the book certainly shows it. The writing is very poor, and it mostly feels like dictation. The story bounces around, from paragraph to paragraph each introducing some new subject. There's little followthrough or organization, though Branson often doubles back on himself. Branson is very self centered and not very reflective, so some of the threads—for example, an excruciatingly detailed elaboration of his libel case against British Airways—are just boring. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Perdiendo la virginidad es mucho más que unas simples memorias. Lo que ofrece este libro es la perspectiva del propio Richard Branson sobre la increíble vida que ha llevado, así como una guía para empresarios donde revela su filosofía para los negocios y sus reflexiones sobre el éxito y la vida. En este libro, Branson realiza un recorrido desde el nacimiento de su empresa Virgin como distribuidora de discos por correo hasta convertirse en la marca global que es actualmente. Unos años que han estado marcados por su tenacidad y capacidad para pensar fuera de lo comúnmente establecido y por los grandes éxitos que ha obtenido. También comparte con el lector los avatares de sus últimos proyectos en sanidad, medio ambiente y medios de comunicación, así como sus reflexiones acerca de sus intrépidas aventuras y su vida familiar. En definitiva, este libro ofrece una valiosa perspectiva sobre la vida de un icono de la emprendeduría que nos permite conocer desde la iniciativa Virgin Earth hasta el lanzamiento de Virgin Galactic que a buen seguro revolucionará, en breve, el sector del turismo espacial tal y como el propio Branson nos cuenta en las páginas de este libro, actualizado hasta 2009. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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