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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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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

In 2015, they filed for bankruptcy, finally ceding their throne to mobile rideshares like Uber and Lyft. In 2006, the massive Tower fell, going from profitability to bankruptcy in a few years. Taxis, Records, and Toys: A tale of three industries. It wasn’t the tech startups alone that brought them down.

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

Open Innovation EU

2006) and are more likely to be created by making new and unique combinations (S. Klein & Bullock, 2006; Lewin, 2011; Von Mises, 1949). Sharp (2010) has found that there is strong paradox in (entrepreneurial) leadership when it comes to innovation at the personal level of the entrepreneur. Shane, 2003).

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Why Amazon wins | Innovate the core, innovate to transform

Hutch Carpenter

Introduced in 2006, AWS has been a tremendous success. In the 2nd quarter of 2015, AWS generated a profit of $391 million on $1.82 Its origins come out of Amazon’s work to optimize its internal cloud operations. Jeff Bezos decided to turn that work into a new offering. billion in revenue. Even the super secret CIA is using AWS.