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...I try to show all of these Elons in the book and then let people judge.” So did he surprise you? “Yes.”...
...From judges to winners and losers, to acceptance speeches and presenters, they are riven with politics. Even outfits are a statement....
...Every year since 2005, the Financial Times has given an award to the year’s outstanding business book, as chosen by a panel of eminent judges....
...The other 2023 finalists were Material World, by Ed Conway, which explores the origins and uses of six minerals that underpin the modern world; Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk, a biography of one of the highest-profile...
...Walter Isaacson’s newly published biography of Elon Musk is one of six finalists for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award....
...Discomfort, he believed, was a good thing”, wrote Isaacson. “From that, I come to the conclusion that neither Isaacson nor Musk have actually read the work on psychological safety,” Edmondson says....
...This year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction took us judges into the worlds of music and memory, geopolitics, history, mutiny on the high seas and beyond....
...It was initially approved under the administration of Donald Trump but was halted in 2021 after a federal judge deemed the initial environmental review flawed....
...Our judges then narrow those down to a final shortlist of six in the autumn, of which one takes the £30,000 prize. But my personal champions include plenty that were also-rans for our judges....
...Here, Iger concedes that Jobs “was quick to judge people. That was a fault. I always found that a shortcoming.” “Heroic narratives aren’t supposed to have chapters like this,” the authors write....
...For Lovelace, computing was a marriage of science and art that could never take the place of humans, and Isaacson in turn judges the contributions of his “hackers, geniuses and geeks” according to their...
...Based on your suggestions, and those of FT journalists, we will compile a longlist, which will be presented to our panel of judges....
...The judges of the award will select a shortlist of up to six finalists on September 24. The £30,000 prize will be awarded on November 11....
...They included two heavyweight biographies – Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s account of the Apple founder’s life and career, and Volcker, a portrait of Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve,...
...The seven judges chose the shortlist – including Volcker, William Silber’s newly published life of Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, and Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s account of the life...
...Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Isaacson’s exhaustive account deserves the wide readership it will undoubtedly get …If there is a message from [the] book, it is that Jobs the dictator was saved by his bigger...
...Several said that they had read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, whose image Samsung still wants removed from Apple’s legal materials because it could make the case into a “popularity contest”....
...But as Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson, financial damages are not the primary goal of this legal action....
...As Walter Isaacson writes in his biography of the late Apple chief executive: “Jobs found ways to ignite blasts of publicity that were so powerful the frenzy would feed on itself, like a chain reaction.”...
...But that is only one in more than 50 cases between the two giants in 10 countries, and a judge in San Francisco ordered both sides to hold settlement talks last month, to try to end one of the most complex...
...But even with those caveats, some of his observations about other companies, from the authorised biography by Walter Isaacson that was published on Monday, make interesting reading....
...Apple has argued that Google stole ideas from the iPhone for its Android software, with late Apple boss Steve Jobs telling his biographer Walter Isaacson that he would “go thermonuclear war” against Google...
...polemical documentary built on the testimony of those people who uncovered facts that Kissinger has never formally denied – Hitchens, Seymour Hersh, William Shawcross, and Kissinger’s biographer Walter Isaacson...
...Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, by Walter Isaacson, Little, Brown, RRP£25 Rushed into print only weeks after the death of the Apple founder, Isaacson’s book sets out to be the definitive history of...
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