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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

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. When the Fast Company article appeared in January 2002, someone came to my office to ask if I’d seen it. On October 22, 1997, I wore orange socks for the first time.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

His continuous improvements were mainly creative re-combinations of previously existing concepts far away from cycling sport. They have lost their capabilities of marketing their former innovative strengths and have failed to adapt their business models to the changing environment. “

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. If we were to compare Miles Davis and Johann Sebastian Bach in a corporate context, we could say that the main difference between them lies in their approach to creativity and innovation.

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The Entrepreneur with a Thousand Faces

Leanstack

I started my first company in 2002 around a big vision of connecting everyone on the planet, sparked by the “6 Degrees of Separation” concept — that all of us are connected by six people or less. Rather, they were all fast followers who out-learned and out-executed the first pioneers in their markets.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

A large, multinational company with several different business divisions, globally dispersed R&D and marketing operations, and a moderately hierarchical but highly matrixed reporting structure has a financial imperative to meet growth and profitability expectations. Norton & Company; May 2002. and McDermott, R.; Buchanen, M.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

When searching for new opportunities, it basically means being able to simultaneously create ideas as part of the innovation management on the one hand and to foresee markets and potentials, called corporate foresight, on the other hand. They all more or less describe a field or way of how to spot opportunities for disruptive innovations.