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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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What’s More Important Than Following Your Dreams?

Innovation Excellence

Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002-2007, loved to talk about dreams. The path to success may be paved with dreams but navigating it requires more than wishful thinking. My favorite of his many quotes about them is, “Dream is not the thing you see in sleep, but is that thing that doesn’t let you.

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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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Optimistic CEO, Pessimistic CFO: Optimal Pairing?

Michael Roberto

They studied 2,356 companies between 2002 and 2013. Here's their description of the research : We culled transcripts of conference calls between 2002 and 2013 involving both the CEOs and CFOs, and measured the executives’ optimism and pessimism by analysing their use of positive and negative words.

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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. Current Orange Socks. I said I hadn’t. I was horrified!

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

If your company cuts innovation spending, but a competitor doesn’t, will you lose your technology leadership position? In five out of the last six recessions the United States has gone through since 1960, R&D spending (a good proxy for total innovation investment) by firms has declined. in 2001 and a further 5.6%

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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. As customer counts are declining, leadership is trying to pull more money out of its declining “core.” McDonald’s profits rose 23%.