Reinventing an Iconic Independent Bookstore
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Can Denver’s The Tattered Cover find a way to compete successfully with online and big box retailers?
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What’s Inspiring Us: Book Edition
Econic
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
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Stephen Shapiro
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After that, the book magically appeared in bookstores. The attached ten steps I’ve used so far – and I am still 8 or 9 months away from the book being available in bookstores. Although I have six published books under my belt, there is always something new to learn. Readers only saw the book when it was in finished form.
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#1,701 – Bookshop
Greatest. Idea. Ever.
JUNE 9, 2020
As if it wasn’t bad enough that Amazon was already driving them out of business independent bookstores are now having to deal with the COVID-19 global pandemic and resulting economic depression. Thankfully, there may be a way to save other independent bookstores from this fate. Some of them may not survive all this turmoil.
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Brunner’s Creative Campaign for City of Asylum, “Dictator Book Reviews”, Wins Seven Silver District ADDY Awards
Brunner
MAY 7, 2021
Each poster and social post featured a banned book that is available in City of Asylum’s bookstore. Not only did the campaign promote City of Asylum’s mission—it encouraged bookstore sales to help support the organization.
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Invisible Solutions Launches Today
Stephen Shapiro
MARCH 3, 2020
You can also buy it at most independent bookstores. You can get a copy at Amazon.com , Barnes&Noble.com , IndieBound , and other retailers. And if you are outside of the US, it appears that Amazon is selling the book globally. The audiobook version will be available shortly. Thank you in advance for purchasing the book.
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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition
Planview
JUNE 22, 2017
” This tendency to say yes explains how the company has achieved so much since its founding: In 1994 it started off as an online bookstore. They launched their own brick and mortar bookstore despite making most bookstores obsolete with its original business.
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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon
Destination Innovation
MAY 17, 2016
He opened his virtual bookstore in 1995. Traditional bookstores responded with their own websites but none was as appealing, as agile or as successful as Amazon. He started the company in his garage where he wrote the software systems for online commerce. The success of the company was spectacular. Amazon.com went public in 1997.
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#2,013 – What I’m Thankful For: 2020 Pandemic Edition
Greatest. Idea. Ever.
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
What are you thankful for?!
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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition
Planview
JUNE 22, 2017
” This tendency to say yes explains how the company has achieved so much since its founding: In 1994 it started off as an online bookstore. They launched their own brick and mortar bookstore despite making most bookstores obsolete with its original business.
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100 Ways to Be More Creative on the Job
Michael Michalko
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
Wander around a bookstore while thinking about a challenge. Create a headline of the future and the story behind it. Choose to be more creative. Recall a time in your life when you were very creative. Trust your instincts more. Immerse yourself in your most exciting project. Open a magazine and free associate off of a word or image.
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When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things
Innovation Excellence
MAY 18, 2020
Consider the case of bookstores. Yet a study at Harvard Business School found that small independent bookstores are thriving by adding value elsewhere, such as providing community events, curating titles and offering personal recommendations to customers. Borders filed for bankruptcy in 2011 and was liquidated later that same year.
The Future of Retail
Daniel Burrus
APRIL 13, 2022
As an important side note, in 1993, I gave a speech to the annual convention of bookstore owners as I was launching my book Technotrends. In that speech I used my Hard Trend methodology to predict that within two years there would be a virtual bookstore, and before the two-year mark, Amazon was born.
With ESAs soaring, tech platform Odyssey emerges to help families access state funding
Christensen Institute
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Odyssey has helped recruit high-quality national providers, as well as make sure that local providers—ranging from music schools to children’s bookstores and after-school providers—are aware of the program. The company has accomplished that through a few techniques. Seeding a vibrant marketplace is critical, Connor told me.
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The Secrets to Running a Successful Retail Store
The Human Factor
JUNE 4, 2019
For a bookstore, you’ll want to. You could also host events for other individuals or companies, such as a book signing opportunity if you’re a bookstore. You obviously want to include store fixtures to help guide traffic around your store and to group products into meaningful sections. Host events that help to promote your brand .
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No more gatekeepers
Idea to Value
MARCH 9, 2022
Authors can self-publish books on the world’s largest bookstore Amazon, and with Print-on-Demand and Kindle eBooks, can make money even if one a single copy of the book is ever sold. Video and Film creators, actors or events can make money by uploading their videos to Youtube or streaming them on Twitch.
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#1,275 – Nexus Lexis
Greatest. Idea. Ever.
MARCH 13, 2018
That people don’t even read that much anymore as the dearth of local bookstores would seem to indicate. When I go into a library or bookstore I’m searching out a specific title or looking at the sections that I’m already interested in. Local bookstores may be dying but Amazon is not. But I disagree.
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Lessons in Innovation from Rome’s Arch Enemy
Destination Innovation
MARCH 30, 2017
We see many examples in business of companies bypassing competitors with an alternate way to reach customers – think of Amazon side-stepping bookstores and Uber outflanking taxi companies. However, the news that he had reached northern Italy shocked and terrorised the Romans. On Amazon.co.uk. On Amazon.com.
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Third Place and the Starbucks empire: the user experience at the heart of strategy
mjvinnovation
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The third place can be churches, cafes, gyms, beauty salons, main streets, bars, breweries, bookstores, parks, community centers, and gift shops – cheap places where people get together, and life happens. In simple terms, they are the living room of a community. Third Place and the Starbucks empire.
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The 21 Best Business Strategy Blogs
CMOE
MARCH 6, 2023
The publication also has podcasts and a bookstore, which provide business leaders with a wealth of additional resources. Knowledge at Wharton covers an array of subjects, such as finance and accounting, marketing, and analytics. Its goal is to share Wharton’s faculty research of current business trends. Business Models Inc.
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To See the Future, Think Both/And
Daniel Burrus
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
eBay and many other Web-based businesses started rapidly growing, many futurists and the media predicted that bookstores, auto dealerships, shopping malls and retail stores in general would soon be obsolete. Why is Amazon opening brick-and-mortar bookstores? In the mid-1990s, around the time that Netscape, Yahoo!, Now you know why.
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The 5 Business Model Patterns You Should Follow in 2021
The BMI Lab Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2020
bookstores) survive in a world that is already heavily digitized? As political and societal discussions about the necessity to open book stores or ban Amazon’s “Black Friday” are heating up, it raises a question: How can traditional retailers (e.g. The same question applies to B2B or even B2G companies.
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DALI’S TECHNIQUE
Michael Michalko
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Available at all bookstores and Amazon. Imagineer7. Highly acclaimed creative thinking expert Michael Michalko who is author of: THINKERTOYS. CRACKING CREATIVITY. CREATIVE THINKERING.
An Anticipatory Leader™ Turns Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage
Daniel Burrus
MARCH 27, 2019
For example, it ’ s clear that Sears, which is closing over a hundred physical stores, has a different Futureview than Amazon, which is opening over three thousand brick-and-mortar retail stores and over a hundred physical bookstores. These two companies ’ Futureviews will shape their future.
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Use Anticipation to Turn Disruption Into Opportunity
Daniel Burrus
JUNE 5, 2019
What is a bookstore? What fundamental assumptions about the “way things will always be” do you operate on? And what are you doing to become your own disruptor? What is a hotel? What is a taxi?
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After a strong Q3, where next for innovation investment?
Commodore Innovation
DECEMBER 11, 2020
book tours used to provide authors (especially first-time authors) with critical exposure (via events at local independent bookstores, local media, etc.). how can airports innovate to enable physical distancing, avoid congregation at pinch points such as security, and minimize human contact during screening and other processing?
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Here comes the hypenated innovation offering
Jeffrey Phillips
APRIL 13, 2016
Coming soon to a bookstore near you. Unfortunately, we are reaching peak innovation offering, which means we'll soon see the dreaded hypenated innovation offering. We'll know we've reached peak innovation insanity when someone writes the "Chicken Soup" for innovators souls book.
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100 About Michael Michalko
Michael Michalko
DECEMBER 10, 2021
I can still remember the first time I paged through a copy of Thinkertoys at a local bookstore. But there’s one book I turn to again and again for creative inspiration: Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko. As I skimmed the amazing ideation techniques, I found myself exclaiming, “Woah!!”
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#1,901 – GPT-3
Greatest. Idea. Ever.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a broken Harry is in want of a book—or so says GPT-3 before going on to reference the magical bookstore in Diagon Alley.”
Innovation Begins with Fascination
Idea Champions
MARCH 7, 2017
I must confess I have a secret desire, whenever I enter a bookstore, to put glue between pages 187 & 188 in all of the new releases just to see if the publishers get any complaints). variety with big indexes and forwards by people who make more money than I do. Some of these books are actually good. Most of them bore me. (I
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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters
The BMI Lab Blog
JULY 28, 2022
Therefore, it is not a coincidence that many of the major success stories in recent years – such as Nestlé's Nespresso, Rolls Royce's aircraft turbine business, Apple's iTunes, or Amazon's online bookstore, were based on successful business model innovations.
FASCINATION: The DNA of Innovation
Idea Champions
JUNE 25, 2016
I must confess I have a secret desire, whenever I enter a bookstore, to put glue between pages 187 & 188 in all of the new releases just to see if the publishers get any complaints). variety with big indexes and forwards by people who make more money than I do. Some of these books are actually good. Most of them bore me. (I
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How to Motivate Yourself When It’s Most Difficult
Tullio Siragusa
JANUARY 6, 2020
Visit a mall, a bookstore, a theatre or a friend. When feeling down, unmotivated, overwhelmed don’t give yourself time to dwell on the feeling. Wake up with as much vigor as you can muster. Make your bed. Shower and get dressed immediately. Perform a spontaneous act. Cooking something also helps to fight the sense of being down.
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Curiosity: The Key to Creativity and Innovation
Idea to Value
JUNE 1, 2017
Today’s technology makes people even less curious because they: Rely on instantly gratifying one-mouse-click answers, instead of exploring a bookstore or a library and being exposed to a diversity of information. R esist change and stay fixed in one place (but curious people readily adapt to changes and grow themselves across the board).
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Amazon Forays Into Grocery Stores
Daniel Burrus
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Earlier this year, CEO Jeff Bezos said that he wanted to open 300 to 400 bookstores. Greater range of choice also falls in line with research that suggests that fewer shoppers now target one grocery store as their primary destination, choosing instead to buy at several different types of stores.
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Tullio Siragusa
JANUARY 6, 2020
Visit a mall, a bookstore, a theatre or a friend. When feeling down, unmotivated, overwhelmed don’t give yourself time to dwell on the feeling. Wake up with as much vigor as you can muster. Make your bed. Shower and get dressed immediately. Perform a spontaneous act. Cooking something also helps to fight the sense of being down.
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Inside the Mind of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Planview
APRIL 28, 2017
Whether it’s growing Amazon’s business from an online bookstore to an e-commerce and cloud computing behemoth, or exploring space through Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos is one of the most innovative minds in the world. No matter how hard you fight, it will do what it wants to do. So, you can either embrace it or allow it to steamroll you.
Never Trust an Atom (and Sometimes Your Brain)
The Human Factor
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
While browsing in a bookstore the other day (yes, I prefer real books to digital readers for business reading), I saw a young person wearing a tee shirt that gave me a good laugh. The front of the shirt had a colorful graphic of an atom, with electrons swirling around the nucleus.
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100 Simple Ways to Be More Creative on the Job
Idea Champions
JUNE 6, 2018
Wander around a bookstore while thinking about your challenge. Decorate your office with inspiring quotes and images. Create a headline of the future and the story behind it. Choose to be more creative. Recall a time in your life when you were very creative. Trust your instincts more. Immerse yourself in your most exciting project.
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TOP TEN TIPS FOR CREATIVITY
Michael Michalko
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
I can still remember the first time I paged through a copy of Thinkertoys at a local bookstore. But there’s one book I turn to again and again for creative inspiration: Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko. As I skimmed the amazing ideation techniques, I found myself exclaiming, “Woah!!” multiple times.
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40 Case Studies: Learning from Failure, or Dying from it
Qmarkets
APRIL 5, 2018
Amazon has now begun opening physical bookstores to compete with Barnes & Noble on their own turf. Their podcast was launched in August of 2017, a little over half a year ago. Recently Barnes & Noble fired 6,000 employees to save $40 million in expenses. The icing on the cake? The Difference Between Failing and Failing.
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What Will You Learn Today?
Mills-Scofield
JUNE 4, 2023
I needed to pick up a book at the library and voila - a spot was wide open in front of the bookstore and cafe! That won’t be the case for a week from now until September! Little things can bring joy and glee into one’s day - like a parking space!
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