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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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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). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

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Coaching helps overcome the ten innovation intractables

Paul Hobcraft

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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Coaching helps overcome the ten innovation intractables

Paul Hobcraft

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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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 “leanleadership curriculum.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

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. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. But it isn’t the only ingredient. Take Nokia and Blackberry as an example. Then came the iPhone. Say no more.

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Why take an industry-agnostic approach to innovation

David Marks

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. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. But it isn’t the only ingredient. Take Nokia and Blackberry as an example. Then came the iPhone. Say no more.