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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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Innovation and creativity: the lasting competitive advantage

Jeffrey Phillips

Dubai is unusual because it combines a number of factors - an energetic leadership, a country and region hungry for growth and transformation, a significant investment pool, and a real "can do" spirit. Clearly things are changing quickly there, and everywhere. What needs to change? If it can be automated, it will be automated.

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Future Insight: Changing the World with an Anticipatory Mindset

Daniel Burrus

We are at a unique point in human history, marked by accelerating global change and enhanced by technological advances. Agile organizations learned how to change rapidly, but with change accelerating, we must go beyond agility and learn to anticipate disruptive problems before they happen. We are always doing the impossible.

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Innovation in action: Taking lessons, programs, and assessments online

Christensen Institute

Responding to this demand, the leadership team at King’s InterHigh, part of the Inspired Education Group, recognized that the best step forward for international students, families, and organizations was to work with the globally-respected International Baccalaureate to offer access to the DP in a fully online format.

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The Leader of Innovation Paints a Vision of a Better Future

Destination Innovation

In order to promote her vision for the future of Xerox she created a fictitious Wall Street Journal article describing Xerox in the year 2005. If you want to lead change you have to communicate your vision. During the whole painful process she placed great emphasis on communication. Good leaders listen,’ she said.

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Join The Global Movement

100%Open

It is a growing problem (66 million and rising at an average of 10% a year since 2005, due to a perfect storm of climate change, conflict and demographic changes). Engaging with children and youth is a cost effective investment in leadership for the future.

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Nothing new under the innovation sun

Jeffrey Phillips

However, most of the conclusions and analysis could easily have been written in 2005. What we need to be talking about is what leadership, process, skill, cultural and motivationa l changes must occur in order to achieve what we know corporations must do. In fact I'm sure many of these same points were made a decade ago.

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