| Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle |  | Authors: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
Publisher: Twelve
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,752
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.95694
Publication Date: October 16, 2009
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START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?
With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the country's adversity-driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality-- all backed up by government policies focused on innovation. In a world where economies as diverse as Ireland, Singapore and Dubai have tried to re-create the "Israel effect", there are entrepreneurial lessons well worth noting. As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit, there's never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues.
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 Israel is a light onto all the nations August 20, 2010
Dalton C. Rocha (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this excellent book, here in Brazil. This book was writen by two Jews: Dan Senor and Saul Singer. And this book is correct, concise and very easy to understand. If you read this book, you will see that companies such as Cisco, Google, Intel, etc. are so successful, because they are using inovations from Israeli Jews.
I found just two mistakes in all this book. On page page 130, there's a small mistake about eugenics and on page 130 this book claims that France sold fighters to Syria, while France sold jets to Lybia, another Israel's foe.
The best part of this book, I found on pages 209 and 210. There, I could read these sentences: "The United Nations' Arab Human Development, which presented the organization's research from 2002 through 2005, found that the number of books translated annually into Arabic in all the Arab countries combined was one-fifth the number translated into Greek in Greece. The number of patents registered between 1980 and 2000 from saudi Arabia was 171; from Egypt, 77; from Kuwait, 52; from United Arab Emirates, 32; from Syria, 20; and from Jordan, 15 - compared with 7,652 from Israel. The Arab world has the highest illiteracy rates globally and one of the lowest numbers of active research scientists with frequently cited articles. In 2003, China published a list of the five hundred best universities in the world; it did not include a single mention of the more than two hundred universities in the Arab world."
Start-Up Nation explains innovation and entrepreneurship August 11, 2010
L. David Marquet
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dan Senor and Saul Singer - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle.
How is it that Israel, population 7,500,000 has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than all of Europe, population 300,000,000? Can it be just explained away by their "Jewishness?" This is the question Senor and Singer set out to answer in their new book, Start-up Nation.
Dan Senor is a policy advisor and political analyst, currently adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Saul Singer is a journalist living in Jerusalem. They approach this anecdotally, stitching together a explanation that includes the impact of the military, the role of the reserve structure, the collection of quality universities, the continuing influx of motivated and risk-embracing immigrants, and perversely, the constraint that Israeli companies cannot trade with any of the countries on its border.
The role of the military on developing a specific culture of innovation and chutzpah is most interesting to me. There are two aspects that the authors emphasize. First, because of the threat to the nation, there is a zealous dedication to leadership mechanisms that work. This includes boisterous debate prior to decisions and robust and honest deconstructions of events after the fact. Members learn to respect competence, and have an irreverence for rank. The second important contribution is Israel's reserve structure. In effect, military organizations coming together annually to drill form egalitarian networks that would-be entrepreneurs tap in to.
Another structural aspect of the Israeli military is it's relative understaffing of senior officers relative to junior officers: 1 to 5 in the U.S. Army; 1 to 9 in the IDF. This deliberately lean staffing results in junior officers being thrust into position where they must make key decisions early in their careers. They are tested and their judgment honed.
I'm not Jewish but I can't help but think there's at least one more thing at play here, not reported by the authors. My experience is that trust significantly reduces transaction costs and speeds interaction. I wonder what the almost homogeneous Jewish population plays in allowing strangers to achieve high levels of trust rapidly, quickly achieving collaborative and common success.
My name is David Marquet, from Practicum, Inc and we help our customers get everyone be a leader and avoid casting employees into follower roles. To continue the dialogue respond to david.marquet@practicuminc.com or follow our blog or follow us on twitter. @totheleadernyou.
Great book August 9, 2010
alani99 (NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you want to understand Israel's culture and how it became what it is, than this is the book.
The Sources of Desocialization and the New Tech Revolution in Israel August 4, 2010
Aussie Ed
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I was a boy in Florida, I was 'buddied' with a Jewish kid named Schwartz, this was because I was a new 'out of stater' without prejudices towards Jews, and as students we had but one thing in common, and I am not Jewish! At the time Israel and the Jewish commuinty world-wide was still feeling sorry for itself and 'protected' everything about the Jewish world and Israel in particular, and Israel was then an international basketcase of a near Marxist Socialist European outpost with the nearest true friend 7000 miles away. This lasted until about the 1990's when a new attitude towards creativity and the support of sheer brainpower in a place with no other natural resources than its people. This new regime established by Bibi Netanyahu, transformed 5 million Jews into an international technical community without whose skills and crativity a whole range of common electronic and other hi-tech items, PCs, laptops, servers, and the software to make them run efficiently, medical equipment, and so on, would not be with us today. As a consequence, all PC's, laptops and servers ought to include "Israel Inside" as well as the more common logo.
While the USA is trying to control business enterprise, Israel has accepted that this only stifles investment, jobs and the building of industrial power, and all based on an efficient Israeli version of the American chutzpah of the past, the willingness to try and probably fail, and then be forgiven for failing. This book is a fascinating read and should be accompanied by an equally fascinating read, "The Israel Test," as both show why the neighboring places surrounding Israel, with perpahps more than fifty times the population of Israel will still be wallowing in self pity,jealousy,and anger, simply because the Israelis can do things better than even the current USA! Perhaps more American politicans should read this book to see why a country with the population of Manhatten can outperform all individual Eurpopean countries, and Japan and China as well, in advancing technology to greater levels.
FASINATING STORY July 30, 2010
JERRYC
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
THE BOOK WAS WELL WRITTEN AND HARD TO PUT DOWN ONCE YOU STARTED. VERY
UNUSUAL RFOR A NON-FICTION BOOK. GREAT INSIGHT INTO HOW THIS TINY NATION
SURVIVES AND THRIVES IN A SEA OF ENEMIES.
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