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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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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

Apple began its stunning transformation with the iPod in 2001, during the darkest days after the Internet bubble burst. Smart companies however, respond to leaner budgets by deploying non-traditional methods that are both cheaper and tend to engage customers in creative new ways. And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp joined in 2001 and was promoted to CEO three years later at the age of 36. David Gram, Head of Marketing at Lego’s Future Lab, said, “We only develop the few key features that are really needed. We throw it into the market and get feedback from consumers.”. They appointed a new CEO.

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THOMAS EDISON’S CREATIVE THINKING HABIT: ADAPTATION

Michael Michalko

One of the paradoxes of creativity is that in order to think originally, we must first familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others. Adaptation is a common and inescapable practice in creativity. One day he and I had a discussion about creative thinking and I brought up the principle of adaptation.

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Four Ways To Become A Successful Future-Fit Organization

PlanBox Innovation

In 2001, the Agile movement suggested a new way of approaching that work more efficiently. Persistence in innovating for the future means that changemakers are looking ahead to ensure ongoing creativity, adaptivity and resilience while delivering on the business that matters today.

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The Orange Socks Story I’ve Never Written Before

BrainZooming

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Fast forward to last summer 2001: Chuck Salter of Fast Company was preparing an article on the turnaround at Yellow. Current Orange Socks.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).