Wow , High Praise. This book goes into the to read/ to buy list. I think I saw this at a Fully Booked branch.
Innovation Lessons in “Start-Up Nation”
by Andy Oram | @praxagora | comments: 10
One might expect Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle to come from the pen of business school or economics professors, but the biographies of authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer reveal policy backgrounds. Both were advisors in the U.S. Federal Government.
These backgrounds give a clue that Senor and Singer aim beyond questions of how to be a successful entrepreneur or high-tech executive. In fact, their book is a serious investigation of the social, historical, and psychological traits that produce extraordinarily creative people–and significantly, creative people who can translate their cranial light-bulbs into technologies with the potential to change the world.
The book has garnered a fair amount of news coverage, but still not as much as it deserves, in my opinion. It took me only about three hours to read, and I highly recommend it as a refreshing–but not necessarily reassuring–perspective on a country that is profoundly misunderstood and misrepresented by media outside its diminutive borders.
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