The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

It's more of a collection of stories than a mindchanging book. Interesting, easy read, but nothing crazy

This book brings completely different perspective about the way we common people look at certain things, like pirates, underworld, prison system, hackers.extracting a lessons out of these would be great challenge but authors have delicately balanced and with panache brought the feelings on surface.beautifully written, kudos....please keep up.

Una buena retrospectiva de innovaciones fuera del tradicional ámbito empresarial.

It s a new point of view about entrepreneurs. Misfit people is very important in our society, will be more an more important in the future

I had no inkling of what this book might offer before I bought it. But I was intrigued - being someone who didn't fit into corporate life that well, I thought it might provide an insight into why. And it did - although it didn't. Let me explain.The central conceit of the book is to show how people who bucked the trends or went against perceived wisdom won out. Some of these people are criminals, some are stubborn people who know a gap in the market when they see it. All the stories were presented in an very readable way. And I felt that the entire book was held together well by the misfit thread. It was great to know that doing things differently can often manifest in successful outcomes.And while it doesn't attempt to determine why that might be (that's an entirely different book, if you ask me), it did set out to show the underlying thinking - not to mention the ability to go against the grain and getting people to back you - in some detail. Finding success by doing what's not expected is something that most other business books discourage - or it's left to fictional tales to shine a light on this kind of thing - so for that reason alone I think this deserves five stars.