Hopping over the Rabbit Hole
How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success
Published on 11. October 2016
208 pages
978-1-119-15367-2 (ISBN)
Description
Develop the Scaramucci mindset that drives entrepreneurial success
Hopping over the Rabbit Hole chronicles the rise, fall, and resurgence of SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci, giving you a primer on how to thrive in an unpredictable business environment. The sheer number of American success stories has created a false impression that becoming an entrepreneur is a can't-miss endeavor--but nothing could be further from the truth. In the real world, an entrepreneur batting .150 goes directly to the Hall of Fame. Things happen. You make a bad hire, a bad strategic decision, or suffer the consequences of an unforeseen market crash. You can't control what happens to your business, but you can absolutely control how you react, and how you turn bumps in the road into ramps to the sky. Anthony Scaramucci has been there and done that, again and again, and has ultimately come out on top; in this book, he shares what he wishes he knew then.
Your chances of becoming an overnight billionaire are approximately the same as your chances of being signed to the NBA. Success is hard work, and anxiety, and tiny hiccups that can turn into disaster with a single misstep. This book shows you how to use adversity to your ultimate advantage, and build the skills you need to respond effectively to the unexpected.
* Learn how to deal with unforeseen events
* Map a strategic backup plan, and then a backup-backup plan
* Train yourself to react in the most productive way
* Internalize the lessons learned by a leader in entrepreneurship
For every 23-year-old billionaire who just created a new way to send a picture on a phone, there are countless others who have failed, and failed miserably. Hopping over the Rabbit Hole gives you the skills, insight, and mindset you need to be one of the winners.
Reviews / Votes
"In Hopping over the Rabbit Hole, Scaramucci provides invaluable and pragmatic advice on how to start a business, continuously improve your professional acumen and transform failure into opportunity. An insightful and resourceful guide for any entrepreneur, dreamer or Presidential candidate." - Mark Cuban, Owner of Dallas Mavericks & Chairman and CEO, AXS TV "The most valuable thing Anthony Scaramucci teaches us about success is how important, even necessary, failure is. As he shows, we all face setbacks -- but it's how we learn from them that governs whether we ultimately succeed or fail." - Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post & Founder and CEO, Thrive Global "A captivating, inspirational, and thoughtful book on dealing with setbacks and successes - and generating more of the latter than the former - by a leading entrepreneur, investor, and television host of extraordinary energy, vision, charisma, and brains. A great read!" - General (Ret.) David Petraeus, Commander of the Surges in Iraq and Afghanistan & Chairman of the KKR Global Institute. "All entrepreneurs are risk-takers. There are good days and bad days. But you learn one thing: 'All sickness isn't death.' Anthony's book is a good blueprint for how to recover from those occasional stumbles. It all begins with a plan. A fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan any day." - Boone Pickens, Chairman & CEO, BP Capital "This is something exceptionally rare in the entrepreneurship literature: someone telling you how he overcame his problems and made lemonade out of lemons. Anthony has skin in the game. He is funny, direct, deep, and insightful. The book is so gripping you can read it standing up. A must read." - Nassim Taleb, Bestselling-Author of The Black Swan & Distinguished Scientific Advisor, Universa InvestmentsMore details
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Persons
Anthony Scaramucci is an entrepreneur, financier, bestselling author, and philanthropist. In 2005, he founded SkyBridge Capital, a multi-billion-dollar global investment firm and producer of the SALT Conference, the premier thought leadership forum on alternative investments and alternative thinking. Prior to founding SkyBridge, he co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management.
Scaramucci is the co-host of Wall Street Week and a contributor to the Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel. He also hosts a podcast on entrepreneurship called "The Motivation Inside (TMI)." In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth magazine's Power 100. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year®--New York Award in the Financial Services category.
A native of Long Island, New York, he is a graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School.
Content
Foreword ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Shape of Things to Come 3
Seeing Around Corners
Chapter 2 From Peril to Pivot 25
Acknowledging Mistakes & Transitioning Ahead
Chapter 3 Fear. Failure. Focus. 33
Early Lessons in Entrepreneurship
Chapter 4 Snap Out of It! 41
Looking Back to Move Forward
Chapter 5 An Entrepreneurial Blueprint
The Don'ts of Building a Business 49
Chapter 6 Holding Grudges
Brush that Chip off your Shoulder 63
Chapter 7 An Introduction to the Important Things in Life 75
The Key to Living a "Rich" Life
Chapter 8 Partnering Up 87
The J-Curve They Don't Teach
You About in Business School
Chapter 9 Negotiating Need Not Be War 101
Leaving Money at the Table
Chapter 10 Don't Hire Quarterbacks, Hire Linemen 111
The Simple Formula for Building a Successful Team
Chapter 11 Person to Person 121
From Management to Corporate Citizenship
Chapter 12 Image Is Everything 133
Owning Your Message
Chapter 13 Networking, Sprezzatura, & Being Your Authentic Self 141
The Keys to Building Relationships
Chapter 14 Sell without Selling Your Soul 155
Chapter 15 Be Bold--Marketing Takes Courage 167
Standing Out by Sticking Your Neck Out
Conclusion I Am Enough 177
Acknowledgments 183
About the Author 187
Index 189
