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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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You Never Fail Until You Stop Trying

Gijs Van Wulfen

Overcoming resistance and managing uncertainty is determining innovation outcomes. That’s why being persistent, is the quality that makes you deliver results, taking an idea from scratch to it’s market success. In no time they had put together a website advertising lodging for overnight guests.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

In March, 2005 Sears shareholders approve the deal. The traditional Sears market was niched up across big box retailers like Best Buy, clothiers like Kohls, tool stores like Home Depot, parts retailers like AutoZone, and soft goods stores like Bed, Bath & Beyond. Leaving Sears’ market “hollowed out.”

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Why We Need More Board Regulations If We Want Real Accountability

Adam Hartung

Directors are responsible to insure management makes the right decisions for the long-term best interests of shareholders. in Director compensation since retiring from Congress in 2005. Which leads to the question, are America’s Boards of Directors actually staffed with the right people? in Director compensation last year.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. Market expansion was what Apple needed, not a sizable chunk of the PC market. Mac’s unique features were shadowed by the premium price.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

3 Our emotional responses to the marketing, purchase, and use of products combine over time to create emotional experiences, which further combine to create emotional relationships. Even the marketing of the page–Why “Go” Beyond Talk?–could Designing relationships. Passion (Desirable) + Commitment (Useful) = Illusory love.

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New Energy for Climate Innovation

Outside Innovation

org, in a marketing campaign that was launched in March 2015. of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, commented : "So while a boost in cleantech R&D funding is always welcome, what is most needed now is money for accelerated deployment and project financing of technologies that are now market-ready.