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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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What I Learned Solving a Business Crisis

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell By 2006 we knew we had a serious problem. Our company’s onetime flagship product, called Afisha, was in a steady decline and it was becoming all too clear that something had to be done. What had once been a market leader that generated huge profits, which fueled the growth of […]

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Clarifying Design in Business Sciences: a Design Thinking Taxonomy

Open Innovation EU

The book is a one-of-a-kind taking a much needed reflective approach to leadership and a critical note towards the level of professionalism that many of us are approaching the science of management and entrepreneurship with. Design Thinking in Business Sciences.

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

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. 2006) and are more likely to be created by making new and unique combinations (S.

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Retool to win in the next decade

ImagineNation

A new leadership agenda for the next decade. After reading and digesting these two articles, I realised that my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story, that I have shared in my last two blogs, have landed in this exact same space. This profoundly deep experience created “cracks” in my assumptions about change, leadership and culture.