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Everything I Know about Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead : The Ten Most Innovative Les...
ISBN: 9780446583800 | 0446583804
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date: 11/20/2012
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The Grateful Dead, one of the most popular bands of all time, still enjoys incredible relevance to this day. But let's admit it, they weren't exactly poster boys for corporate America. Or were they? For an extraordinary 30 years, the Dead improvised a business plan-all while making huge profits and pioneering practices subsequently embraced by the business world. Now, business professor and lifelong Deadhead Barry Barnes shares the 10 most innovative business lessons from the band's illustrious career, including: creating and delivering superior customer value; implementing a flat management structure; sharing your content; and more. Barnes shows how the Dead were masters of "strategic improvisation"-the ability to adapt to changing times and circumstances-and that their success lay in their commitment to relentless variation. EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS I LEARNED FROM THE GRATEFUL DEAD teaches readers how they did it-and what any business can learn from their long, strange trip.
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| Prologue: The Business Genius of the Grateful Dead | p. 1 |
| Master Strategic Improvisation: How the Dead Learned to Plan and Act at the Same Time | p. 7 |
| Live Your Values: How the Dead Did Well by Doing Good | p. 29 |
| Be Kind to Your Customers: How the Dead Offered Superior Customer Value | p. 47 |
| Share Your Content: How the Dead Exploited the Power of "Free" | p. 65 |
| Create a Busin... MORE | p. 85 |
| Insource: How the Dead Learned Do-It-Yourself Business | p. 105 |
| Innovate Constantly: How the Dead Stayed on the Cutting Edge | p. 125 |
| Transform Through Leadership: How Jerry Garcia Inspired Greatness in the Dead | p. 145 |
| Share the Power: How the Dead Encouraged Employees to Lead | p. 161 |
| Exploit the Experience Economy: How the Dead Kept It Real | p. 183 |
| Epilogue: The Accidental Capitalists | p. 199 |
| List of Key Sources | p. 205 |
| Index | p. 211 |
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