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Getting Book Feedback

Stephen Shapiro

Given my last post about my next book generated so much interest, I’ve decided to document my journey here in the hopes that it benefits others. This is book number 7. Although I have published books as far back as 2001 (with an even earlier one from 1996 when I was at Accenture), I am always learning something new.

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. This book is a worthwhile, albeit high-level, treatment of the topic with a rich set of descriptions and examples. Highlights. Gary Pisano, PhD.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

One week from today, my 6th book, Invisible Solutions , will be released. I’ve been asked, “How long did it take to write the book?” December 2 – 10, 2018, I locked myself in a hotel room and started working on the book. In fact, upon reflection, the book took nine years to write and publish.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. I have followed a number of great innovation thinkers and read different books on the areas of innovation. Innovation application and practice seem to have stayed stuck, largely due to how it is organized.

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Publishing Checklist

Stephen Shapiro

Although I have six published books under my belt, there is always something new to learn. After that, the book magically appeared in bookstores. Readers only saw the book when it was in finished form. But for my next book, I am using a completely different strategy. Based on their feedback, I edited the book.

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The simple (and advanced) tools i use to run an online business on auto-pilot

Idea to Value

WordPress is the free software to power your website, but you will need to pay for a web hosting company, which handles all of the data storage, bandwidth and handling traffic for your users. While some people prefer to do each webinar live, this can have issues due to potentially bad internet connections, latency or registration errors.

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The Wisdom of Crowds

IdeaScale

It only took me six years as a crowdsourcing practitioner, but I finally got around to reading “The Wisdom of Crowds,” one of the flagship books in our industry. He opens the book with an example most of us know: the crowd that guessed the weight of an ox at a country fair within a pound. Fortunately, we have you covered here.