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Unorthodox success key points from a billionaire business owner and philanthropist. Eli Broad's embrace of "unreasonable thinking" has helped him build two Bundle of money 500 companies, amass personal billions, and use his prosperity to create a new approach to philanthropy. He has helped to invest in medical research institutes, K-12 education reform, plus some of the world's very best contemporary skill museums. By contrast, "reasonable" people produce all the reason why something new and different can't be done, because, after all, nobody else has done it that way. This book stocks the "unreasonable" key points - from negotiating to risk-taking, from trading to employing - which may have made Eli Broad such a success.
- Broad helped to produce the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, the Broad Contemporary Artwork Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, and The Broad, a fresh museum being built-in downtown Los Angeles.
- His investing approach to philanthropy has resulted in the creation of medical and medical research centers in the fields of genomic medicine and stem-cell research.
- At his alma mater, Michigan Status School, he endowed a full-time MBA program, and he and his wife have funded a fresh contemporary skill museum on campus to provide the broader region.
- Eli Broad is the creator of two Bundle of money 500 companies: KB Home and SunAmerica.