Rethink your way to a better life
In business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model.
Part business biography, part business blueprint, Total Rethink explains how this can be done. Successful telecoms entrepreneur David McCourt lays out the reality of the dangerous situation we find ourselves in and suggests solutions which will empower everyone, including business people, politicians, diplomats, and teachers, to repair the damage we have already done, and prepare for the dramatic changes to come.
• Change the way you think and behave to be a true entrepreneur
• Understand why incremental change no longer works
• Move at the speed of the times we’re living in to keep up
• Find trusted, effective guidance you can put to practice today
Written by a sought-after speaker, businessman, and entrepreneur, the advice inside this book will help you learn to think - and live - like a revolutionary.
Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1 Visualize the Future 1
Chapter 2 Start a Bottom-Up Revolution 7
Chapter 3 When the Revolutionaries Become the Establishment and Stop Blowing Up the Model 21
Chapter 4 Entrepreneurial Thinkers Can Be Found in Every Walk of Life 33
Chapter 5 Can You Teach Entrepreneurship or are Creative Entrepreneurs Born that Way? 39
Chapter 6 Work on Your Strengths, Forget Your Weaknesses 53
Chapter 7 Being Interested in Everything 65
Chapter 8 Getting Taken Seriously 71
Chapter 9 Achieving the Impossible 77
Chapter 10 Tell Your Story to the World 81
Chapter 11 Radical Ways of Getting Paid 85
Chapter 12 Taking Risks and Grasping Opportunities 91
Chapter 13 Connecting Computers to One Another 105
Chapter 14 Finding a Mentor 113
Chapter 15 Trying to Do Everything at the Same Time 123
Chapter 16 If You Are Persistent, Your Plan B May Be Better Than Your Plan A 137
Chapter 17 Crowdsourcing Is the Future 145
Chapter 18 The Death of the Middlemen 157
Chapter 19 Ten-Year-Olds Have Great Ideas, Too 163
Chapter 20 Never Be Afraid to Think Big - or to Think Young 167
Chapter 21 Future Generations 181
Chapter 22 The Power Shift 189
Chapter 23 The Power of Immigration 201
Chapter 24 The Sheer Joy of Being a Creative Revolutionary 207
Epilogue 213
About the Author 217
Notes 219
