Mad Genius: A Manifesto for Entrepreneurs

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Dr. Kimaira in Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, notably because he's a Mad Scientist who creates wooden automatons with hidden machine-guns in medieval Japan. The Star Wars Expanded Universe gives us Bevel Lemelisk, chief designer of the Death Star, although the actual designers were superintelligent alien children whose planet was being held hostage.

So this manifesto comes to you from one of the lowest points in my life but, I hope, leads us both to reaching something much higher: harnessing your Mad Genius—and sharing it with the world. I hope you’ll join the discussion on social media, using the hashtag #MadGenius.Giller from Legend of the Seeker is both Mad Scientist and Evil Sorcerer; the two most typical archtypes that fall under this trope. Audiobook: Young-ish jaded adult male voice, he is the author. Enthusiastic and animated at times. Even tone and volume otherwise is suitable for x2 speed. Or how about the meeting where they had the brilliant concept to shape the can like a keg? And how many beer drinkers do you think were lying awake The Hunger Games: The unnamed male tribute from District 3 to the the Career Tributes' group, as he figures out how to reactivate the mines from each Tribute’s pad.

A word of caution. Do not fall into the trap of thinking about modifying or altering an idea that already exists in your business. By taking this approach, your creativity is actually being adaptive not innovative according to Gage. Instead, think about creating something totally new, something exclusive that has not existed before. Depending on whether you see them as Antiheroes or Antivillains, Hardison of Leverage Consulting & Associates is either The Smart Guy or Evil Genius. His Evil Counterpart, Colin "Chaos" Mason is a non-ambiguous example being an Insufferable Genius and Jerkass extraordinaire who seems to view committing crimes as a way to stroke his own ego, and constantly betrays his own allies. Seems like a pleasant, clever guy at the start. Just 30 minutes into part 4 of 5, the ratio of good information to ranting turned the book around. I'm now waffling between 2 and 3 stars. It's actually made worse by listening to the author himself tell the stories, who gets all worked up about his past issues. This is what I will remember from the book -- not the good stuff. Once he started talking about "small-minded people" and "institutional stupidity", I wanted the book to end sooner. He's snarky and arrogant, but he's successful and wants to share the nuances of his success with us... In short, I disliked the energy of this book. Live and Let Die: Baron Samedi to Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big as the voodoo cult director on Kananga's island of San Monique. Samedi may or may not be an Evil Sorcerer, with The Stinger suggesting that Bond may have tangled with the real Baron Samedi.

Seilah of Tatarus is in charge of the technology that gives her guildmates Resurrective Immortality. Führer Katrina Seran from v2 of Open Blue was a strategist, Chess Master, and ship captain who became ruler of her country at the age of 20, possibly due to her own machinations. Experience – Through travel, learning a new language, studying other cultures or meeting new people, you build “a kaleidoscope of interesting and different experiences”. Later episodes of Season 7 show he's certainly not the only one they have, but Dr. Gaines serves this role among the Leviathans before his death. He's synthesized a food additive that is very addictive, and consumption leads to weight gain, and dampens people's emotional responses until they are very apathetic. It is latter refined to avoid the adverse effect of 0.03% of consumers turning into mindless hyper-adrenalized cannibals.

Dr. Stinger from Super Duper Sumos is an interesting example because, while none of the other villains show him any respect at all, he's really the only one on the villains' side who ever actually does anything. In Agatha Christie's story " The Face of Helen", the villain is a brilliant chemist who specialized in poison gas during World War I, and attempts to murder the object of his unrequited love with an elaborate death trap involving a glass sphere full of gas and a Glass-Shattering Sound. As he discusses the attributes of a mad genius I can certainly agree with that. I have been a fan of what Steve Jobs accomplished in Apple and during his time away from Apple. I am not a fan of his personal life, but I like the way that he wasn’t afraid to go against the grain in business and do things differently that were often ridiculed. By working at our creative abilities we are certainly more able to take on many of the challenges and changing dynamics of the world that we live in. Juken Sentai Gekiranger has Sky Fist Kata, whose martial arts style relies mostly on illusion-casting. Long also becomes this after he appears, acting as Rio's main advisor and the one guiding him to seek greater power although he harbors ulterior motives. However, if the first person says, “Thanks, it’s so great to be here. My name is Mary Marcus and I flew here from the Toronto division. My hobbies are embroidery and stamp collecting, and I’m really excited to be at this conference because I was just telling my sister last week that...”—you immediately know you’re screwed. The intros you budgeted for five minutes will actually eat up twenty-five minutes of the ninety minutes you have.In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Professor Fassbender is a total subversion. A full-blown good guy who was kidnapped along with his daughter Margo by henchmen of former Chief Inspector Dreyfus, he was forced to build a doomsday machine and be part of Dreyfus' criminal organization against his will when Dreyfus used the professor's daughter as leverage. He still hated having to work for a madman bent on world domination. And probably things didn't get better after Dreyfus' defeat as he might have had to face charges for crimes committed against his will (like the destruction of the United Nations building), especially with Dreyfus himself too destroyed to be arrested (assuming the events of the later sequels never happened, including Dreyfus' Unexplained Recovery). Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger has Quval, who prefers psychological tactics in contrast to the brutish ones his fellow Team Leader Azald likes to employ. In For a Few Dollars More, El Indio is a similar case. Groggy is another example as he's given technology-based assignments like taking out the telegraph lines to El Paso and, despite his name, figures out that Indio plans to screw over the entire gang to keep the money for himself.

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services Pretty much all of the Big Bads both the Scoobies and Angel Investigations go up against - though definitely except Glory. Much straighter variations though are Warren Mears and Angelus. While both are Manipulative Bastards Warren is a more straight-up Mad Scientist, while Angelus is The Chessmaster. Spider-Man: Homecoming: Phineas Mason for Adrian Toomes/Vulture; he Macgyvers Imported Alien Phlebotinum into gadgets that are either used or sold by Toomes' gang and serves as Mission Control whenever Toomes goes on a heist to steal more leftover phlebotinum. Gregory J. Feist, San José State University, California , Roni Reiter-Palmon, University of Nebraska, Omaha , James C. Kaufman, University of ConnecticutBatman has The Riddler, who proves to the biggest mental challenge out of his Rogues Gallery. Joker also sometimes plays this role depending on the writer.