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djrelay's review against another edition
4.0
Chapter 8 is the money chapter. Great summary of the behaviors illustrated in earlier chapters!
jess___'s review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Rebel Talents offers a compelling look at how embracing non-conformity and authenticity can lead to success and innovation. The storytelling is one of the book's greatest strengths, with Gino using real-life examples of rebels from various walks of life to illustrate how challenging the status quo can spark creativity and encourage change.
I would have appreciated a clearer structure around the key traits of rebels. While the examples are engaging, I think outlining these traits more prominently would have made the book’s message even more impactful.
Overall, Rebel Talents is an inspiring read, encouraging readers to embrace their individuality and challenge conventional thinking. Highly recommended for anyone interested in being a change agent.
I would have appreciated a clearer structure around the key traits of rebels. While the examples are engaging, I think outlining these traits more prominently would have made the book’s message even more impactful.
Overall, Rebel Talents is an inspiring read, encouraging readers to embrace their individuality and challenge conventional thinking. Highly recommended for anyone interested in being a change agent.
beachybookwormbythebay's review against another edition
4.0
A little slow at times, but overall an insightful read on how create better environments for creativity, collaboration, and success in the workplace
oldaq_001's review against another edition
5.0
A very interesting book.
How people who creatively and with curiosity break the rules.
Expertise with the willingness to go back to ignorance and then back over and over again. A fascinating take is how suppressing or fostering rebels affects corporations.
Merged review:
A very interesting book.
How people who creatively and with curiosity break the rules.
Expertise with the willingness to go back to ignorance and then back over and over again. A fascinating take is how suppressing or fostering rebels affects corporations.
How people who creatively and with curiosity break the rules.
Expertise with the willingness to go back to ignorance and then back over and over again. A fascinating take is how suppressing or fostering rebels affects corporations.
Merged review:
A very interesting book.
How people who creatively and with curiosity break the rules.
Expertise with the willingness to go back to ignorance and then back over and over again. A fascinating take is how suppressing or fostering rebels affects corporations.
laurag22's review against another edition
4.0
This looks at how you can become a pink sheep and break the mould and be who you want to me. Rather than follow the crowd and be a white sheep, be your own person and stand out.
ahomelesstree's review against another edition
2.0
There were about twelve copies of this book abandoned in the hallway of my work building and now I know why. I’ve heard many of these anecdotes from other sources and the overall organization of the book was a disaster. Very repetitive and I felt that many of the examples did not even relate to the concept of rebellion. Back to the hallway it goes
hbourgeois's review against another edition
Genuinely know clue where this book is. Thought might’ve given it to somebody but idk. Written by Harvard professor I emailed and i liked the first half but felt like it was getting into more specific applications I wasn’t interested in.
psychohobbit's review against another edition
5.0
This book is well worth reading. For me, it re-enforces what I've already read in this field of best practices and risk taking with some case studies I haven't read about before. It always good to know curiosity (life long learning), authenticity (sincerity -- the real kind), and seeking disagreement (of ideas not biases) brings better solutions and products. The author does stress that when she refers to rebel, she means the type of rule-breakers who think out of the box and follow their own path, working closely with their group even if they are the leader, to create and achieve something greater than existed before. This book offers clear guidance looking at role models such as Steve Jobs, the airline pilot Sully, Houdini, and the pirate Blackbeard.
curiouspolymath's review against another edition
3.0
I started this book because I had heard the author being interviewed on The Hidden Brain program on NPR. The topic seemed interesting and she told a great story.
As it is, I am not unhappy about buying the book, nor am I unhappy reading it. Francesca Gino is a great story teller, she is able to extract the lessons she wanted from the stories and her descriptions of the stories are excellent. Her firsthand stories of her teaching business executives at Harvard, her and her husbands venture in to the world of improv comedy, and most interestingly, her apprenticeship at the Osteria Francescana with Chef Massimo Bottura captured my full attention. In fact, it is her continuous reference back to the chef and the restaurant that kept me interested.
Her stories throughout the book, whether it is her tour of the Pixar facilities and the retelling of “Sully” Sullenberger story were well done and she is a very capable yarn spinner, and she is quite adept at focusing the stories into her main points about being a rebel in the button down world of today’s business.
The book is split into eight chapters and she lays out the landscape of what being a rebel means in today’s world. The main points that she emphasizes: having an eye for the new and the novel, having a different perspective that is well considered and consciously rational, the importance of diversity, being authentic in your actions, and being actively engaged, are actually gospel in today’s church of the innovative management. I don’t think anyone would argue with her conclusions.
That is precisely the problem: the points that she attributes to the qualities of a rebel has been covered ad nauseum in other business books. It seems that every important point she brings up are familiar to me. It means that either I have read too many of these kinds of books or she is treading old ground. It is probably a combination of both, but I was actually a bit disappointed that there is not more substance to the secret of being the rebel.
Having said that, it must be pointed out that the title is still apt: the status quo in American business is still at a point where all the points that the writer made are not the norm, that senior management are clinging to their old ways by reflex and familiarity. The behavior that she is promoting can indeed be seen rebellious. It is just that all this has been said before. If this book does play a role as catalyst in changing the status quo of American business and management. Then I am all for it.
In the end, I enjoyed the read, the author has a nice style, and when she talks about Osteria Francescana, I am fully riveted, because that is a world that I am unfamiliar, and I learned. I just wish that she had more original points to make.
As it is, I am not unhappy about buying the book, nor am I unhappy reading it. Francesca Gino is a great story teller, she is able to extract the lessons she wanted from the stories and her descriptions of the stories are excellent. Her firsthand stories of her teaching business executives at Harvard, her and her husbands venture in to the world of improv comedy, and most interestingly, her apprenticeship at the Osteria Francescana with Chef Massimo Bottura captured my full attention. In fact, it is her continuous reference back to the chef and the restaurant that kept me interested.
Her stories throughout the book, whether it is her tour of the Pixar facilities and the retelling of “Sully” Sullenberger story were well done and she is a very capable yarn spinner, and she is quite adept at focusing the stories into her main points about being a rebel in the button down world of today’s business.
The book is split into eight chapters and she lays out the landscape of what being a rebel means in today’s world. The main points that she emphasizes: having an eye for the new and the novel, having a different perspective that is well considered and consciously rational, the importance of diversity, being authentic in your actions, and being actively engaged, are actually gospel in today’s church of the innovative management. I don’t think anyone would argue with her conclusions.
That is precisely the problem: the points that she attributes to the qualities of a rebel has been covered ad nauseum in other business books. It seems that every important point she brings up are familiar to me. It means that either I have read too many of these kinds of books or she is treading old ground. It is probably a combination of both, but I was actually a bit disappointed that there is not more substance to the secret of being the rebel.
Having said that, it must be pointed out that the title is still apt: the status quo in American business is still at a point where all the points that the writer made are not the norm, that senior management are clinging to their old ways by reflex and familiarity. The behavior that she is promoting can indeed be seen rebellious. It is just that all this has been said before. If this book does play a role as catalyst in changing the status quo of American business and management. Then I am all for it.
In the end, I enjoyed the read, the author has a nice style, and when she talks about Osteria Francescana, I am fully riveted, because that is a world that I am unfamiliar, and I learned. I just wish that she had more original points to make.