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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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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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Ezassi Appoints Denise Fletcher as New Chief Innovation Officer

eZassi

Two years later, she was named one of the top 40 women in innovation by Front End of Innovation and received two corporate entrepreneur awards for “best new service” in 2014 and “best new venture” in 2015. Throughout her career, Denise has been recognized for her contributions to business and innovation.

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Nothing new under the innovation sun

Jeffrey Phillips

I rise today to praise Innovation Leader and Innosight on their publication of the 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report. From what I can see of this report it is an excellent synopsis of the state of play of innovation in 2015. However, most of the conclusions and analysis could easily have been written in 2005.

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Why “Follow your passion” is terrible advice for you & those you care about

Idea to Value

The patron saint of Millennials, Steve Jobs of Apple, is also held up for one of the most famous quotes to inspire the generation, delivered in his Stanford Commencement address in 2005. – Steve Jobs, 2005. [I Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Everything else is secondary.

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Why We Need More Board Regulations If We Want Real Accountability

Adam Hartung

in both 2015 and 2014. Former Majority leader Eric Cantor, who was up for the Speaker job when losing his last election, is now on the board of a Wall Street firm, where he earned $2M in 2015 for bringing in new business – making him the highest paid Director in this group. After all, he was paid $19.3M

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

In March, 2005 Sears shareholders approve the deal. 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. So that was where he had leadership focus. Lampert owns 53% of Kmart, and 15% of Sears.

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