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Hacking Innovation
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Hacking Innovation

The New Growth Model from the Sinister World of Hackers

Josh Linkner

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Eye Opening
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Josh Linkner describes the twisted mind-set and tactics of criminal hackers. He engagingly persuades you to change your attitude toward hacker techniques like crowdsourcing, rapid experimentation, reverse engineering and mash-ups by showing how executives and entrepreneurs can use them to achieve business and social breakthroughs. Even though some suggestions might seem like familiar creative techniques under another name, his ideas offer fresh insights about turning hackers’ methods to good purpose.   

Take-Aways

  • People evolved to solve problems, so nearly everyone can learn to hack.  
  • Hackers can do either good or evil – sometimes both.
  • Hackers can affect networks and computers, as well as ideas, products and processes that have nothing to do with computers.

About the Author

Serial entrepreneur Josh Linkner leads the Institute for Applied Creativity and writes magazine and newspaper columns. He also wrote Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention.

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