But you do have to wonder if Apple for all its genius is really missing the boat.
But for all his genius, Ovshinsky was a poor businessman, as Forbes detailed in a critical 2003 profile.
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After all, if genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration the pressure is on when it comes to turning a great idea into the nuts and bolts of getting a new product development into the hands of customers.
Despite all of these differences, hiring Clinton may be a masterstroke of genius that has all the markings of a high-risk, high-reward move with which this political tycoon Obama has grown comfortable.
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Character and imagination and creative genius were all related, as if part of some unified field.
We all know what creative genius looks like: a young man working feverishly to produce a stunning new artistic breakthrough (Pablo Picasso) or write groundbreaking code (Mark Zuckerberg).
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But among many psychologists this all-purpose view of genius is not a popular one.
Of even greater concern: the future of Apple and all companies that rely on charismatic genius for their health.
Following Boyd, we can also suggest a fix: Amazon needs more of a Blitzkrieg type strategic culture, based on Einheit (mutual trust) and other elements of German World War II type strategic thinking that allowed strategic and tactical genius to flourish at all levels, not just at the top (Germany too, eventually lost, but arguably because it failed to sustain the discipline of the initial years of Blitzkrieg).
' If a scientist wanted to design a giant petri dish with all the right nutrients to make hypomanic genius flourish, he would be hard-pressed to imagine a better natural experiment than America.
"A genius and the greatest improvisational comedian of all time, " tweeted Richard Lewis.
He sees thousands of employees, great wealth for one and all, and a room full of awards honoring his genius.
They all doubted her self-proclaimed prowess as a turnaround genius.
But what all three had in common was that they understood both the genius of capitalism, and its inherent instability.
The movie is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, which pretty much says it all.
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All of Washington would be saying, "What a genius!"
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"Even with all the transparency in the world you have to be a genius to understand these statements, " referring to the near-impenetrable description of derivative contracts and other off-balance-sheet items included in the financial reports and footnotes filed by the banks and investment banks.
Enough of all that, let me tell you about this feat of marketing genius from: This is a blog post about dinosaurs, Tesla, and a hotel in Colorado.
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He produced three records that won Grammys for album of the year - Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years in 1976, 52nd Street and Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company in 2005.
Later on in the series will come S.mouse, a rap artist from Los Angeles and the creative genius behind the most successful hip-hop single of all time, Slap My Elbow, and other US-based characters.
Incoherence and pimples were all the evidence they needed that the company was run by an Internet genius, untarnished by the rules and lessons of the old economy.
It was Roth's genius to put a universal theme into a historical novel that retains all its power in our own not-so-post-imperial age.
Genius is really not too strong a word for the mind behind it all.
All the time Messi sat glumly on the bench as the task became hopeless even for his genius.
" He produced three records that went on to win Grammys for album of the year Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years, " Joel's "52nd Street" and Charles' "Genius Loves Company.
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