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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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How to build a great company by blending bureaucracy and holacracy

Linda Bernardi

September 2015 – In 2001, when I built a start-up in the then-new field of RFID technology, I was often fascinated by the responses in interviews I would get from potential new hires. I would say, “Tell me what you can do,” and they would answer, “What do you want me to do?” I quickly […].

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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

Because it allows its leadership to adopt a hands-off approach to innovation process. The logic behind this approach was eloquently articulated in a 2015 article on Google. Even some innovation experts claim that “ innovation is everyone’s job.”

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

The “Mere Internet Midget” Becoming a Digital Media Giant In 2001, Axel Springer presented its first ever net loss to shareholders. In 2013, Axel Springer made a minority investment in AirBnB upon the company’s leadership visit to the Silicon Valley. “We We never made a bet. and FinTech. One of these companies?—?N26?—?became

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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

Because it allows its leadership to adopt a hands-off approach to innovation process. The logic behind this approach was eloquently articulated in a 2015 article on Google. Even some innovation experts claim that “ innovation is everyone’s job.”

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. The CVCs in the sample: Gain and maintain support from senior leadership.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. The CVCs in the sample: Gain and maintain support from senior leadership.