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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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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

The need for people and organisations to innovate has always been there but what’s much harder to comprehend, and therefore navigate, is the rapid pace of change we’re experiencing, on a scale we’ve never seen before. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. One , these companies operated in highly regulated markets. That’s the time to start running and jump on board with the changes. If you don’t look ahead, you won’t change.

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Five Ways to Fight the Inertia Holding Back Innovation

New Markets Advisors

As companies get complacent and settle for incremental innovations, they risk losing large swathes of their customers as markets shift and new entrants offer real value. Quip launched its low-cost electric toothbrushes in 2015. electric toothbrush market. Forcing people to change the way they behave can be hard.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar.

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Why Amazon wins | Innovate the core, innovate to transform

Hutch Carpenter

Swinging for the fences to find unique, breakthrough ideas in new markets. That can be extending current offerings into new markets, or introducing new products and services to existing customers. Transform : Innovations here have the effect of changing the identity of the company. Kindle is Amazon’s reading tablet.