Spark provides an unhurried, thought-provoking experience about
what drives individuals, teams and organizations to thrive, and how
readers can use that knowledge to ignite and direct their own
careers. Spark is an unconventional business book. It has been
built on the idea that coming from a perspective of 'getting'
something is a severely self-limiting position. Instead, a career
should be seen as an opportunity to give - to your funders, your
team, your customers and the world at large. Doing so, the authors
argue, can lead to expansive possibilities. At the same time,
however, people should be averse to bloat, bureaucracy, and
everything that comes with achieving a certain level of inert mass.
So, how can these two positions be reconciled? How can we complain
about companies getting too big while presenting a book to help
entrepreneurs and leaders think and act more effectively? This is
why, unlike most business books, Spark doesn’t use the authors'
business backgrounds or personal stories as a launchpad for their
views on best practices. It’s not a step-by-step guide to
building an empire, and it doesn’t pretend to have all the
answers to creating the world’s best businesses. Instead, Spark
aims to deliver an unhurried, thought-provoking experience about
what drives individuals, teams and organizations to thrive. The 24
concepts in the book are commonplace inside venture capital firms
and high-performing private equity firms, but they haven’t yet
made their way to the broader marketplace. The authors believe that
these ideas should be more accessible to professionals in all
industries, at all stages of their careers. And instead of giving
overly-prescriptive advice, readers will be encouraged to think
about broader concepts in the context of their own experiences,
careers and goals. The book is organized into three sections, each
containing eight chapters: - Tier One: Ideas you work on within
yourself (individual) - Tier Two: Ideas you work on with someone
else (interpersonal) - Tier Three: Ideas you work on within groups
(organizational). Each chapter introduces a term; gives a
specialized definition that challenges the reader to think
differently about the term; and offers thoughts and guidance on how
to put the idea into practice. Part manifesto, part self-help
guide, Spark is for anyone who has to be resilient and tap into the
fire (or inferno!) inside of them to overcome a challenge. It’s
for those who simply aren’t finding purpose in bloated
organizations, who don't like to hold meetings for meetings’
sake, and who want to live each day as their last, instead of just
getting through. The goal of this book is to help you overcome
whatever obstacles stand between you and the life you want to live.
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