The Glassblower's Gamble

Timeless Parables on Craft, Risk, and What a Fortune Is Actually Made Of

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Eleanor Voss

Verlag:

Readers First Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36876882

EAN: 9781804281819

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Do, 17.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 36.75

Beschreibung

In The Glassblower's Gamble, Eleanor Voss isolates seven structural principles. embedded in glassblowing-a. craft where fortunes are built from sand and destroyed by a single misstep-and maps them onto the. architecture of financial risk, business failure, and wealth preservation. Through detailed study of working glassblowers and the technical literature of the craft, Voss reveals why most. people misread the fragility of what they've built. Glass is the most common substance on earth. It becomes. valuable through heat, timing, and the acceptance that what you're building can shatter. So does wealth. The. difference is that glassblowers expect this. They design for it. Most people building wealth do not. Readers will discover:. - The annealing window. : why forced cooling fractures glass-and why "securing" gains too early creates. the stress that later destroys them. -. Why glass retains a memory of its making: invisible stress that only reveals itself when the piece breaks. under conditions it should have survived. - The gather-to-pontil transfer. : where value is lost in the handoff between one form and another, and how. to see it coming. -. What the Long Kiln (a communal infrastructure glassblowers share) reveals about distributing catastrophic. risk. -. How professionals detect fatal flaws while the work is still hot enough to fix-and amateurs only see them. after it's too late. -. Why the hottest zone in the furnace is not where the shaping happens, and what that reveals about. productive vs. performative risk. This is not business advice dressed in metaphor. It's a technical breakdown of how fragility works. -in glass, in. markets, in anything built without a guaranteed outcome. The framework is portable. The insights are specific. And the core argument challenge.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Eleanor Voss

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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