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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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The Orange Socks Story I’ve Never Written Before

BrainZooming

Yesterday marked a momentous day professionally, that seemed big on the day it happened, but not as life-changing as it has become. 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. Current Orange Socks. I said I hadn’t.

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution. Christian reports that corporates with open-minded leadership have over 50% of all strategic initiatives open. Are You Ready To Open Up Your Strategy?

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Do Not Follow the Herd – Sell McDonald’s and Microsoft

Adam Hartung

Leadership touted a higher same store sales number, but that is completely misleading. McDonald’s leadership has undertaken a back to basics program. That’s why accounting changes are often called “financial machinations.” McDonald’s profits rose 23%. But revenues were down 5.3%.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. But times have surely changed. And emerging competitors like Apple Pay and Google Wallet will surely change the market further – while aiding its growth. But leadership became complacent, and now it is very likely overvalued. About $8B/year each.

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Why Resilient Companies Embrace Strategic Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

Those companies — names like Boeing, Kellogg, Procter and Gamble, IBM, and Whirlpool — have remained because of one thing — a willingness to do whatever it takes to remain relevant and resilient, including constant change and adaptation. This means being willing to constantly adapt.

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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. Heck, leadership had discontinued the famous catalogues in 1993 to stop store cannibalization and push people into locations where the company could promote more products and services. Newspapers are a dying business, and Bezos could not change that fact.

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