Mad Genius: A Manifesto for Entrepreneurs

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This is a manifesto for managers who want to become leaders and leaders, who want to blow up mediocrity. Because whether you work in a traditional business, a nonprofit service organization, or in the public sector, the best way to create fresh and innovative solutions is to think like an entrepreneur. Create your next breakthrough Mad Geniusis a unique book for entrepreneurs--and for employees who want to think like entrepreneurs. It will help you unleash the innate creative genius inside you. Every industry has its sacred cows and accepted practices. These are often based upon foundational premises that are no longer valid--if they ever were. There's a reason Facebook was birthed in a dorm room, Amazon.com came from people not in the bookstore business, and UBER was created by people who weren't from the taxi industry. Innovation, discovery, and creating disruption require blowing up conventional thinking and unleashing your entrepreneurial brilliance. Mad Geniusis a fire hose of creative stimulation that will spark breakthrough ideas and show you how to nurture them. Get ready to think different.

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Mad Love for Mad Genius

After reading Mad Genius, I filled half a journal with insights and ideas,but here are a couple of areas of critical thinking which I believeevery entrepreneur would be wise to attend to-- instead of risking seeing the next 10 years become more than cataclysmic -- in fact downright disasterous.
Dixie Gillaspie, Entrepreneur

Randy Gage is truly a geniusand entrepreneurs would be mad not to follow his stellar advice. Make your first mastermind alliance with this remarkable book.
Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

A big and brave kick-start for anyone set to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true.
Robin Sharma, #1 bestselling author of The Leader Who Had No Title

This book is effin great! Teaches not only a mindset, but gives you hope, inspiration, and challenges them at the same time. I love every part of it.
Larry Winget, author of Grow a Pair and five other international bestsellers

This life-changing book is loaded with practical, proven ideas and questions that will help you kick open the door to all the success you want.
Brian Tracy, author of The Power of Self-Confidence

Eclectic and irreverent but inherently wise, Gages ideas will leave readers eager to break free of the herd in the pursuit of success.
Publishers Weekly

This is one of the messiest books Ive ever read. I mean that in the best possible sense. Randy Gage, takes us Mister Toads Wild Ride. I was hanging on for dear life. . . . Its a mad, mad, mad world inside Randy Gages headand Im glad I took the trip.
Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of The War of Art and Turning Pro

Mad Genius is friggin mind-rocking. Its a Vulcan mind meld between author and reader, where Gage exhibits what Mozart and Picasso did artistry emerging from the riot within their own heads.
Alan Weiss, PhD, author of Million Dollar Consulting

The title says it all: Randy Gage is bothmad and a genius!and he puts it all in a book as a handbook for success!! CRAZY GOOD!
Jeffrey Hayzlett, prime-time TV show host, bestselling author, and sometime cowboy

Brace yourself. Youre about to be shaken and stirred by the insights, truths, and rip-roaring predictions of a mad wizard out to make you rich.
Joe Vitale, author of Attract Money Now

Only Randy Gage would challenge the conventional wisdom of everyone from Einstein to the Buddhaand lead you to conclude, Well, he does have a point!
Bob Burg, coauthor of The Go-Giver and author of Adversaries into Allies

Gage takes you places you really dont want to go but you need to go. He gives you the path to take the jump and create success like youve never imagined. There is truly madness in his method and you will benefit from his genius.
Lisa Ford, author of Exceptional Customer Service

Provocative and practical dont usually go together, but Mad Genius is both. It will stretch your thinking, challenge your beliefs, and then provide you things you can actually use to bring out your inner Mad Genius.
Mark Sanborn, leadership adviser and bestselling author

Most of us can accomplish so much more in life and Mad Genius is the roadmap to get us there. Its a bible for making big things happen. Do yourself a favor and read this book, nothing will look the same again.
Steve Keating, author of the LeadToday blog

This book shocks your system, challenges your assumptions, and opens your mind to radically new ways of thinkingand thats in just the first chapter! Gage is the master guide on the unorthodox path to entrepreneurial genius.
Rory Vaden, New York Times bestselling author of Take the Stairs

Author Bio

Randy Gageis a thought-provoking critical thinker who will make you approach your business--and your life--in a whole new way. Randy is the author of ten books translated into twenty-five languages, including the New York Timesbestseller Risky is the New Safe. More important, he is an entrepreneur and angel investor whose passion is starting and growing businesses. Randy has spoken to more than two million people across more than fifty countries and is a member of the Speakers Hall of Fame. When he is not prowling the podium or locked in his lonely writer's garret, you'll probably find him playing third base on a softball field somewhere.