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ePrize CEO Josh Linkner's creativity book hits top of Amazon, Barnes & Noble sales
Friday, February 25, 2011
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Say the word creative around
Josh Linkner
and you'll probably repeat what he just said. The chairman of
ePrize
and CEO of
Detroit Venture Partners
has had creativity in the workplace on the mind for a while and now has it on paper with his new book,
Disciplined Dreaming
.
The self-proclaimed "proven system for driving breakthrough creativity" focuses on helping entrepreneurs and their companies become more imaginative and thus more effective in the 21st Century workplace. The book was released on Sunday and climbed to the top of the sales charts for both Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites Monday and Tuesday.
"Creativity is the most important skill that individuals and companies should be nurturing," Linkner says. "It's the one thing that can't be outsourced."
One of Linkner's favorite mantras is that entrepreneurs should be trying to invent the next
Groupon
instead of copying the idea. He points out that pioneers in certain new economy segments are often outdone by late-coming rivals (Friendster by Facebook and AltaVista by Google) and Linkner will counter that continued innovation is what made the latecomers first.
"They were able to outcreate their competitors even though they were late out the gate," Linkner says.
He offers local start-up
hireMYway
as an example of a building force in Metro Detroit's emerging new economy. The
website
for hiredMYway features technology that uses a dating-service model on the Web to help people find jobs. It basically pairs employers and job seekers with matching needs and skills in the same way a dating service would.
"They used creativity to fundamentally displace the complacent incumbents," Linkner says.
Source: Josh Linkner, chairman of ePrize, CEO of Detroit Venture Partners and author of Disciplined Dreaming
Writer: Jon Zemke
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