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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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Michael Brunner is Named Honoree in Pittsburgh’s 2020 Smart 50 Awards

Brunner

It was over thirty years ago, when Michael got into the advertising business , but his foresight and progressive thinking didn’t stop there. . 1991: Michael saw the value in big data before it was big and made Brunner’s first acquisition, a database marketing firm .

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Context matters

Boxes and Arrows

What makes a marketing e-mail or newsletter efficient? The act of clicking certain element in a marketing e-mail is a result of a longer process of identifying, assimilating, and analyzing its content. But what to include in the marketing message instead of introductory blah-blah text? Directing users’ attention by faces.

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Brainstorming with an expert, Matt Nelson

Betterific

Matt Nelson (MN): I dropped out of college in 2005 and spent several years driving trucks across the country. From there, Marketing works its magic on developing advertising campaigns, pricing and distribution channels. MW: Tell us something about you that we wouldn’t know from your resume. Feasibility Study (Can we make it).

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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

IT skills, cyber security skills, social media skills, marketing and advertising skills, branding skills, global market skills, intellectual property skills – there is a long list of skills which would greatly improve board diversity, and thereby a board’s ability to govern effectively.

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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.