'I wish I’d had this book when I was starting out, and I'm glad I have it now'
Richard Reed co –founder Innocent Drinks |
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‘Packed full of no nonsense advice, invaluable insights, and practical exercises - Find your Lightbulb is an indispensable guide to getting yourself on the road to success and staying there.’
Jamie Murray Wells, founder of Glasses Direct and UK Entrepreneur of the Year 2006. |
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‘A practical and inspiring guide to turning ideas into cash from a master of customer insight and innovation.’
Tim Brown CEO of IDEO – the USA’s most renowned design and innovation consultancy |
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‘Anyone with the ambition, determination and passion to build something great should read this book first – it unlocks the secret to financing ideas.’
Nigel Grierson, Managing Director, and co-founder, of Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures (one of Europe’s largest Venture Capital firms) |
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‘ Mike inspired me when I worked for him with his unique combination of vision, innovation and customer focus. Now he has put it all together in this common sense guide.’
Terry Rhodes, co-founder of $3bn mobile phone company Celtel
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‘All you need to know about customer engagement, leadership, innovation, and culture whether you are starting a new business or transforming an existing organization.’
Peter Darbee, Chairman and CEO of California energy Giant, Pacific Gas and Electric |
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‘Mike is one of the great serial entrepreneurs, having built three businesses with market valuations in excess of £1 billion. Mike has led many highly successful seminars at MIT that provoke students to think about the process for delivering breakthrough innovations. His descriptions of where innovations come from are brilliant’.
Henry Birdseye Weil, Senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management |
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‘Mike Harris transformed banking all over the world, not once but twice with his creations of Firstdirect and Egg and in doing so changed my life.’
Tony Wyatt – Director Group Manufacturing, Bank of Ireland. |
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‘I've had the privilege of working with Mike as he built 3 iconic, billion-dollar brands. No-one knows more about how to do it and in this book he reveals his secrets.’
Rupert Howell, founder of Advertising Agency of the decade Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury and currently MD, ITV.’ |
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‘Mike thinks the way Virgin does and starts with the customer….. (In our case even building a spaceship has been approached from a customer perspective as well as a technical one).’
Will Whitehorn, President Virgin Galactic |
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‘A pleasure to read and, like Mike himself, motivational, articulate and visionary.’
David Squire, business angel, ex-partner Accenture |
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‘Mike has been my mentor for some years now and this book allows everyone to benefit from his advice.’
Tom Ilube, Tech entrepreneur: founder of Lost Wax Ltd & co-founder of Garlik |
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‘The gravitas of real corporate experience combined with unique insights into leadership, customer insight and innovation delivered powerfully with passion and clarity.’
Mynoo Blackbyrn, Serial entrepreneur: founding CEO of the IT skills forum, founder of the Inspired Leaders Network, Inspired Movies and the Seven Secrets Group |
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‘Packed with practical advice which is going to make a real difference to anyone who reads it from a powerful leader who consistently makes the impossible happen.’
Tracy Goss, world renowned expert on executive reinvention and business transformation and author of the Last Word on Power |
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’At Egg, Mike Harris and his small team of bright-eyed entrepreneurs set out to transform banking in the UK. That they did in spades, setting the standard for electronic banking worldwide.’
Gordon Starr, founder of Starrco - San Francisco based experts in transformation of organisational culture. |
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