TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schilling,Melissa A.
TI  - Quirky: the remarkable story of the traits, foibles, and genius of breakthrough innovators who changed the world 
SN  - 9781610397926
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Personality and creative ability
KW  - Genius
KW  - Inventions
KW  - Technological innovations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-298) and index; "Don't tell me it's impossible. Tell me you can't do it.": what makes some people spectacularly innovative? -- "I gang my own gait...": a sense of "separateness" -- "He's like a walking moonshot.": extreme confidence -- "Ideas came in an uninterrupted stream...": the creative mind -- "Once she had recognized a certain way as a right one, she pursued it without compromise...": a higher purpose -- "Work made the Earth a paradise for me.": driven to work -- "The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set...": opportunities and challenges of an era -- "It's not about the money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it...": access to resources -- "You get creative people, you bet big on them, you give them enormous leeway and support...": nurturing the potential that lies within
N2  - "Melissa Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people--Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs--to identify the traits and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again."--Jacket flap
ER  -