Find Your Lightbulb: Mike Harris (Firstdirect & Egg) explains how to make millions from apparently impossible ideas
Find Your Lightbulb is for people who want to change their lives irrevocably by creating something valuable out of nothing more than a simple idea. There are many ways to make a living, but few are as satisfying as starting your own business and bringing something new into the world. Mike Harris has created three billion-pound businesses from scratch and been chairman of a fourth, which was sold for $10bn less than a decade after it started. He's currently working on his fifth business creation and enjoying every minute. For anyone that has dreamt of doing the same – making a million from unleashing an idea into the world - this book shows how.
Readers will find out how to:
- Step out of the comfort zone to aid the innovation process
- Use criticism in a positive way
- Fail lots - but on the small stuff
- Avoid consensus, the killer of creativity
- Identify customers
- Understand people
- Live on the edge, without falling off
- Put it all into action
Mike Harris presents the book in his own words:
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About the author
Mike Harris got the entrepreneurial bug in 1986 and has been involved in creating businesses ever since. He has created three consumer businesses from scratch and was chairman of a fourth.
Mike was founding CEO of the world’s first major telephone bank Firstdirect, and then as Chief Executive Mercury Communications he built a new consumer fixed line telephone business, and was Chairman of mobile operator One to One, (now operating as T-Mobile). He moved on to be the founding CEO of Egg – the first major UK player in internet banking, and for several years the largest internet bank in the world.
In 2005, Mike retired for a brief period and then co-founded Garlik, which has raised $18m in venture funding and where he is currently Executive Chairman, working on a web service allowing individuals to manage and protect their digital identities. In addition, Mike is an advisor on innovation to a handful of interesting companies.
He has been a regular speaker on innovation at mid career MBA courses at the Sloan Business School, MIT and has served on a cabinet sub committee involved with public services reform.
ISBN: 978-1-906465-04-9; Paperback Original; £12.99 / €18.20
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