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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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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces.

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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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Why Resilient Companies Embrace Strategic Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

In their unceasing quest for market leadership, these firms have embraced the constant and relentless hunt for "what's next"⃜ for the next innovation that will advance their markets to the next stage. Strategies must be forward-looking and future-focused, with the anticipation of shocks and stresses along this future journey.

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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. There was no way a cost cutting strategy would save KMart or Sears.

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How to spend $200+ Billion for a Train Wreck

Mills-Scofield

2002: AT&T sells AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $47.5B I saw this and worked on this firsthand. It wasn’t pretty. It led to a lot of spending with little success: 1999: AT&T pays $44B to buy the cable company TCI, creating AT&T Broadband. after having invested about $58B more for a total of $102B in AT&T Broadband.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

The growing percentage of funds allocated to technology innovation clearly shows China's ambition on innovation leadership (source: Prof. BYD became the second largest battery company in 2002. The best part of this strategy is that risk is reduced, since the company relies on successful designs to adapt their own.

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