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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 spend $200+ Billion for a Train Wreck

Mills-Scofield

Once upon a time, a paragon of American innovation lost its way. 2002: AT&T sells AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $47.5B 2015: AT&T buys DirecTV for $49B. It embodied Einstein’s definition of insanity, spending over $200B for a train wreck… and they’re doing it again.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

Quick Rundown: In January, 2002 Kmart is headed for bankruptcy. Sears became a retailing juggernaut via innovation. To put it mildly, Sears was the most innovative retailer of all time. Lampert needed to innovate. So that was where he had leadership focus. Chart Source: Yahoo Finance 5/13/16. In just under 2.5

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