Michael J. Gelb - Innovate Like Edison: The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success

The Success System of
Americas Greatest Inventor

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Copyright 2007 by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gelb, Michael.
Innovate like Edison: the success system of Americas greatest inventor / Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-1380-3
1. Creative ability in technology. 2. Technological innovations. 3. Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 18471931. I. Caldicott, Sarah Miller. II. Title.

T49.5.G45 2007
608dc22

2007026653

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From Michael:

To the light and love of my life, Deborah Domanski.

From Sarah:

With deepest love to my children,
Nicholas and Connor,
and
To my great-great-grandfather
Lewis Miller and his enterprising daughter,
Mina Miller Edison.

From Michael and Sarah:

To the fulfillment of Edisons vision
of human progress through the
application of his timeless approach
to innovation.