The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to

The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World

An 800-CEO-READ Staff Pick
Shortlisted for theÂ Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award
AÂ Financial TimesÂ BusinessÂ Book of the Month

â€œFor any would-be activists who hear the voice: â€˜not meâ€™ or â€˜not now,â€™ Merchant makes the strong case for â€˜yes youâ€™ and â€˜yes nowâ€™â€”and even shows you how to jump in.â€Â â€”Van Jones, host of CNNâ€™sÂ The Messy Truth,Â author ofÂ Rebuild the DreamÂ andÂ The Green Collar Economy

â€œThe Power of Onlyness is a book for our times. . . .Â Merchant forces us to dig deep, into the book and ourselves, and it goes beyond self-knowledge and self-empowerment, obliterating the fear of otherness with an understanding of the onlyness of us all.â€ â€”Sally Haldorson, 800-CEO-READÂ

An innovation expert illuminates why your power to make a difference is no longer bound by your status

If youâ€™re like most people, you wish you had the ability to make a difference, but you donâ€™t have the credentials, or a seat at the table, canâ€™t get past the gatekeepers, and arenâ€™t high enough in any hierarchy to get your ideas heard.

In The Power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant, one of the worldâ€™s top-ranked business thinkers, reveals that, in fact, we have now reached an unprecedented moment of opportunity for your ideas to â€œmake a dentâ€ on the world. Now that the Internet has liberated ideas to spread through networks instead of hierarchies, power is no longer determined by your status, but by â€œonlynessâ€â€”that spot in the world only you stand in, a function of your distinct history and experiences, visions and hopes. If you build upon your signature ingredient of purpose and connect with those who are equally passionate, you have a lever by which to move the world.Â

This new ability is already within your grasp, but to command it, you need to know how to meaningfully mobilize others around your ideas. Through inspirational and instructive stories, Merchant reveals proven strategies to unleash the centrifugal force of a new idea, no matter how weird or wild it may seem.Â

Imagine how much better the world could be if every idea could have its shot, not just the ones that come from expected people and places. Which long-intractable problems would we solve, what new levels of creativity would be unlocked, and who might innovate a breakthrough that could benefit ourselves, our communities, and especially our economy. This limitless potential of onlyness has already been recognized by Thinkers 50, the Oscars of management, which cited it one of the five ideas that will shape business for next twenty years.

Why do some individuals make scalable impact with their ideas, regardless of their power or status? The Power of Onlyness unravels this mystery for the first time so that anyone can make a dent. Even you.
Country USA
Brand Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer Viking
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780525429135
Color White
ReleaseDate 2017-08-29
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780525429135

Country	USA
Brand	Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer	Viking
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780525429135
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2017-08-29
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780525429135

The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World

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