The Documenter

Alexander Graham Bell

• Originally from Scotland
• Trained as an audiologist and speech therapist
• Family man
• Wife managed accounts

Inventions

• Telephone
• Hydrofoil
• Early aeronautics

Secrets to Success

• Approached problems from a very different perspective
• Very good at communication and documentation
• Keen observer
• Worked well with patent lawyers and the patent office
• Ambitious
• Self Motivated
• Optimistic
• Planned carefully
• Networked well with his customers
• Let others build while he worked on documentation with patent lawyers
• Read volumes of works on the state-of-the-art
• Relied on his Brain Trust
• Close to his customers and their needs