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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

The books range from old classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People, right up to modern bestsellers like Start with Why and Atomic Habits. With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Stories like how during the 1970 Apollo 13 NASA moon mission, engineers and scientists at ground control only had hours to produce, test and instruct the astronauts on how to produce an air filter using nothing but the materials the astronauts had around them. However, above moderate levels of stress, creativity quickly falls.

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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

In fact, Netflix crowdsourced its innovation process by paying 1 million dollars to the people who figured out how to improve its recommendation algorithm from 2006 to 2009. Creating a Concrete Innovation System Helps Firms Get Ahead.

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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

Brian was a frequent visitor to Toyota’s Los Angeles campus during my tenure there as an advisor from 1999–2006. In the end, the Gremlin strategy was extremely effective in enabling the Pathfinder team to learn how to ferret out and deal with uncertainties in a way that positively neutralized disruptive forces.

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#1,749 – DNA Origami

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Of course, I have no idea how to actually make origami myself and have never even attempted to do so. ” Adds the Science Advisory Board : “DNA origami was invented in 2006 by Paul Rothemund of the California Institute of Technology. But I’m a huge fan nonetheless.

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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

That’s down from nearly nine years in 2006. Using the Tools of Cooperation and Change theory , developed by professors Howard Stevenson and Clayton Christensen, my colleagues and I analyzed these four individuals’ efforts to understand how they were able to create such changes, even when they weren’t initially popular.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. And it is most impactful at the enterprise level when it informs the most critical decisions: where to invest, how to consistently meet market demand and customer needs, and how to deliver effectively. At the time, I was a Ph.D.