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In the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of business and management that train new generations of entrepreneurs and executives, achieving extraordinary success in business is attributed to far-sighted individuals who have taken...



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In From Predators to Icons, Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot set out to discover what successful entrepreneurs have in common. They present case histories of businessmen who built their own empires and chart what they consider the typical course of a successful entrepreneur's career.... The truly successful businessman, in Villette and Vuillermot's telling, is anything but a risk-taker. He is a predator, and predators seek to incur the least risk possible while hunting.

-- Malcolm Gladwell * The New Yorker *

From Predators to Icons

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    A Paperback / softback by Michel Villette, Catherine Vuillermot, George Holoch

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 22 October 2009
      ISBN-13 9780801475665
      978-0801475665
      ISBN-10 080147566X
      Also in:
      History of specific companies / corporate history Management: leadership and motivation

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of business and management that train new generations of entrepreneurs and executives, achieving extraordinary success in business is attributed to far-sighted individuals who have taken...



      Trade Review

      In From Predators to Icons, Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot set out to discover what successful entrepreneurs have in common. They present case histories of businessmen who built their own empires and chart what they consider the typical course of a successful entrepreneur's career.... The truly successful businessman, in Villette and Vuillermot's telling, is anything but a risk-taker. He is a predator, and predators seek to incur the least risk possible while hunting.

      -- Malcolm Gladwell * The New Yorker *

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