Bøger af Edward Lumsdaine

This printed version of the book differs only slightly from the Kindle format, in that it includes a few additional photos and minor changes in the text to meet page layout requirements. Also, two maps showing the geographic context of Edward's growing up in China and the subsequent voyages at sea have been inserted. This is the story of how a biracial child, penniless, with little formal education, hardly speaking English, and without a clue of how to go about it, reaches America and pursues the American Dream. His Cantonese mother occasionally calls him "larn doe yee" (which means rotten gambler two). His American father is imprisoned by the Japanese during their occupation of Shanghai. After the Communists take over, his father reluctantly leaves for America, leaving eight children behind. What perils does Edward face in war-torn Shanghai, being hungry, bullied, expelled from school, seen as unmanageable by his mother, and trying various schemes to earn money, one of which results in his being threatened with beheading? Many of his extended family do not survive. He escapes Shanghai at age 14. In Hong Kong he is hired as a cabin boy on a Danish tramp ship. Eventually, on an impulse, he joins the US Air Force and has more adventures, as he tries to fit into unfamiliar cultures to become a real American.

Entrepreneurship from Creativity to Innovation is a unique guide for students, potential entrepreneurs and inventors, business managers, team leaders, or anyone seeking to become a more successful problem solver and innovator. It focuses on the thinking and problem solving skills needed to succeed in our rapidly changing, high-tech world. Entrepreneurial thinking will enable you to cope with uncertainty and behave with greater flexibility in your professional and personal life -- these skills are for everyone! Learning is reinforced through application to communication, teamwork, and entrepreneurship, which in turn will enhance your understanding of innovation -- a valuable skill sought by employers who recognize the ability to innovate as a key for remaining competitive in the global marketplace. Also, at a time when traditional jobs are disappearing, you will be more likely to recognize and profit from new opportunities. Part One of this book presents a holistic view of entrepreneurship and its links to creativity and innovation. You will be introduced to the Herrmann thinking styles model, the creative problem solving model and the Pugh method for developing optimized solutions. In Part Two, you will learn to apply these thinking tools to the product development process, from finding a consumer need and then synthesizing creative ideas down to a "best" concept or solution which can be protected with a patent. Part Three shows how you can apply these tools to business development -- it also provides an overview of resources that are available to entrepreneurs for business startup. Part Four discusses leadership and management strategies for a startup enterprise. It presents the four crucial pillars needed to sustain organizational innovation for growth and profitability: development of everyone's thinking skills; their application by cross-functional teams at the project level; their integration at the organizational level by management; with open communication linking everyone in the enterprise.