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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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Innovation Management in 2023: Venture Building & Scaling

Innov8rs

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Furthermore, corporates don’t always know how to approach business building.

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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. After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum.

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Theaster Gates: “It’s about our ability to shape things.”

Tim Kastelle

He describes his evolution in this TED talk : The Dorchester Project is essentially a lean startup. Usually, it’s smarter to start with what you have, and figure out how to make things work. Related Stories How to Find Your First Customers Is Our Business Model Ready to Launch? Real estate?? Build the community.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

And with so many different technology breakthroughs these days, how should one know which to focus on? Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. But it isn’t the only ingredient. Take Nokia and Blackberry as an example.

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Why take an industry-agnostic approach to innovation

David Marks

And with so many different technology breakthroughs these days, how should one know which to focus on? Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. But it isn’t the only ingredient. Take Nokia and Blackberry as an example.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

And with so many different technology breakthroughs these days, how should one know which to focus on? Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. But it isn’t the only ingredient. Take Nokia and Blackberry as an example.