Future Forward: Leadership Lessons from Patrick McGovern, the Visionary Who Circled the Globe and Built a Technology Media Empire - Hardcover

Rifkin, Glenn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1260142809 ISBN 13: 9781260142808

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education, 2018

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Powerful lessons in forward-thinking leadership from the visionary business pioneer who turned IDG into a $3 billion technology media and venture capital empire

Like Steve Jobs, Patrick McGovern built a worldwide multibillion-dollar industry by thinking differently, disrupting old business models, and embracing new technology trends. He drove the future forward and never looked back. With magazines such as Computerworld, PCWorld, and Macworld, his company, International Data Group (IDG), quickly became a global powerhouse with information technology publications in nearly 100 countries. 

The story of IDG’s astonishing success has been a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs all around the world. No matter what industry you work in—whether you’re heading up a small startup, expanding a mid-sized company, or running a major global corporation—McGovern’s people-first principles, insights, and integrity will help you lead the way. 

Learn how to:

•Define a clear mission early in the game—for long-term success.

•Identify new markets and stay ahead of the curve.

•Expand your business globally but have it managed locally.

•Listen to your customers and empower your people.

•Hire the best and challenge them to do their best work.

•Never stop learning and always remain curious.

•Foster a let’s-try-it attitude throughout the company.

•Lead with optimism and stay true to your values and vision. 

In addition to these timeless lessons, you’ll learn how this future-forward leader broke new ground in the 1980s by opening offices in China, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and other markets deemed off-limits. You’ll discover how his company thrived in spite of major industry shifts—from mainframe computers to minicomputers to personal computers, from print to digital to smartphones—that upended many rivals. Living at the intersection of these classic disruptions, McGovern never missed a beat. He understood well before most that a revolution in information technology was underway and not only was there money to be made but that this would soon become the world’s largest industry. Most important, he never forgot the human element that is so crucial to any company’s success. His leadership in the creation of one of the world’s leading brain research institutes at MIT only served to cement his legacy. 

Future Forward shows you how to apply McGovern’s principles to your own organization. These are the lessons of a true visionary. This is how successful leaders take risks, take charge, and take the future by storm. 

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Glenn Rifkin has been a contributing writer for the New York Times for nearly 30 years and has written for dozens of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Boston Globe, and Strategy & Business. In the 1980s, Rifkin was a senior editor at Computerworld, IDG’s leading publication, where he got a firsthand introduction to Patrick McGovern’s remarkable leadership capabilities. Rifkin has consulted with a variety of companies, such as Boston Consulting Group, Korn Ferry International, Mercer Consulting, WPP, HCL Technologies, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He has also worked with Harvard Business School on editorial projects. He is the coauthor of Radical Marketing, The Ultimate Entrepreneur, and The CEO and the Monk.

Visit idg.com and mcgovern.mit.edu

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Praise for Future Forward

Through his work at IDG, Patrick McGovern shaped the way that millions of people grew to understand the enormous potential of computers and how they would change the world. He was also known for being a caring and thoughtful boss two traits that extended to his generous philanthropy.  

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft

Patrick McGovern was a gift to us all, a trailblazing visionary who showed an entire generation of entrepreneurs what it means to be a principles-based leader and how to lead with higher values.  

from the foreword by Marc Benioff, founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce

 

Every great leader, from Benjamin Franklin to Steve Jobs, leaves behind a valuable set of lessons to be learned from their lives and careers. Pat McGovern was such a leader, and in this insightful book, Glenn Rifkin provides a dramatic, clear-eyed look at this visionary entrepreneur and the leadership lessons he used to build his global company. McGovern s wisdom about business and people puts him in the pantheon of the best and most successful leaders.  

Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci

Glenn Rifkin has beautifully captured the Pat McGovern I knew and admired: curious, bold, innovative and visionary. Pat was a true MIT original, with an iconic story of entrepreneurial success. Future Forward reminds us of Pat's extraordinary commitment to the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, an anchor for arguably the greatest concentration of brain science researchers on the planet. I am delighted that a wide audience will have this wonderful opportunity to read about Pat's impact past, present and future on science and society.  

L. Rafael Reif, president of MIT

Future Forward offers a vivid look at how Pat McGovern built a global organization able to innovate time and again. McGovern understood that innovation, at its best, is a team sport, and over the course of his extraordinary career, he propelled IDG s employees to build an agile and innovative organization. His successes and missteps provide invaluable lessons for leadership in a marketplace in which change and innovation are demanded.

Linda A. Hill, professor and chair of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School

  Pat McGovern is one of the unsung heroes of the tech business. His invisible hand helped many companies like Apple, Dell, and IBM. Read this book because it s about time that Pat s vision and wisdom sees the light of day.   

Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist for Canva and former chief evangelist for Apple

  Truly great companies are built on ephemeral but critical soft assets culture, ethics, integrity, a deep-seated valuing of employees, and a genuine reverence for customers. This Pat McGovern playbook guides executives on how to build and leverage these powerful capabilities and keep them central to the life of all successful organizations.  

George F. Colony, founder and CEO of Forrester Research

 

  Pat McGovern was a visionary leader who recognized early on the power and influence of information technology. McGovern s unique leadership philosophy created a remarkable company that spread the gospel of IT to every continent, and influenced countless managers and researchers around the world, including me. Glenn Rifkin has effectively captured McGovern s mission and the critical leadership lessons he taught his thousands of IDG employees. Future Forward is a must-read for aspiring leaders who want to harness the impact of the ongoing technology revolution.  

Erik Brynjolfsson, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of Machine Platform Crowd

Pat McGovern was an entrepreneur s entrepreneur, by which I mean he grew his startup not merely by hiring experienced and energetic people, but by recruiting and supporting entrepreneurs. He tolerated corporate inefficiency to get entrepreneurial energy. And he loved people, especially customers, so he backed entrepreneurs who loved them, too.  

Bob Metcalfe, professor of innovation at the University of Texas, inventor of Ethernet, and founder of 3Com

Having known Pat McGovern for several decades, his influence and mentorship left an indelible mark on my career. Future Forward skillfully offers the set of leadership lessons that formed the basis for McGovern s remarkable success in building his company, IDG, into a global technology media giant. This is a provocative book which goes well beyond the usual prescriptive business offerings. Instead, Rifkin brings McGovern s lessons to life with detailed examples of his visionary outlook and his devotion to IDG s mission. Given the complexity of global business today, the timing couldn t be better for this invaluable set of lessons.   

Jim Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital

Pat McGovern was one of the most important and least famous media moguls of the twentieth century. Glenn Rifkin gives you a chance to get to know him, and shares some of the key lessons from a business empire that stretched from Boston to Beijing.  

Scott Kirsner, columnist at the Boston Globe and cofounder of Innovation Leader

Glenn Rifkin has managed to capture Pat McGovern s spirit and his story that of someone who came of age with the modern computing industry and understood from an early age how computing would transform the world.   

John Markoff, former technology writer at the New York Times and author of Machines of Loving Grace

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1260142809
• ISBN 13: 9781260142808
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: McGraw-Hill Education; https://www.mheducation.co.in/; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien