Foreword xiAcknowledgments xiiiChapter 1 Visualize the Future 1Chapter 2 Start a Bottom-Up Revolution 7Chapter 3 When the Revolutionaries Become the Establishment and Stop Blowing Up the Model 21Chapter 4 Entrepreneurial Thinkers Can Be Found in Every Walk of Life 33Chapter 5 Can You Teach Entrepreneurship or are Creative Entrepreneurs Born that Way? 39Chapter 6 Work on Your Strengths, Forget Your Weaknesses 53Chapter 7 Being Interested in Everything 65Chapter 8 Getting Taken Seriously 71Chapter 9 Achieving the Impossible 77Chapter 10 Tell Your Story to the World 81Chapter 11 Radical Ways of Getting Paid 85Chapter 12 Taking Risks and Grasping Opportunities 91Chapter 13 Connecting Computers to One Another 105Chapter 14 Finding a Mentor 113Chapter 15 Trying to Do Everything at the Same Time 123Chapter 16 If You Are Persistent, Your Plan B May Be Better Than Your Plan A 137Chapter 17 Crowdsourcing Is the Future 145Chapter 18 The Death of the Middlemen 157Chapter 19 Ten-Year-Olds Have Great Ideas, Too 163Chapter 20 Never Be Afraid to Think Big - or to Think Young 167Chapter 21 Future Generations 181Chapter 22 The Power Shift 189Chapter 23 The Power of Immigration 201Chapter 24 The Sheer Joy of Being a Creative Revolutionary 207Epilogue 213About the Author 217Notes 219
DAVID McCOURT is Founder and Chairman of Granahan McCourt Capital whose European offices are in Dublin. He is an Irish American businessman, an entrepreneur, and one of the world's most successful, award-winning business people. The Economist described him as having, "impeccable credentials as a telecom revolutionary."