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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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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

In 2017, the entire eight-person, executive management team (except for the CFO) of Sweetgreen quit of their own accord after the company had record growth in 2015 and 2016. By 2015, they were growing fast with a leadership team recruited for their extensive experience in the food industry. – Michael Raynor.

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” Part 1 of 3: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. The need for innovation is urgent across the entire organization.

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

Open Innovation EU

Entrepreneurial thinking is described as having an entrepreneurial expert mindset (Krueger, 2007). Krueger, 2007). Based on the same logic as mentioned above, entrepreneurial thinking is prone to both causational thinking and effectuation-based thinking (Krueger, 2007). When to be creative, when to be managerial.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. A 2007 study by M.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

Pumped by most analysts, and none moreso than Jim Cramer of “ Mad Money ” fame (Lampert’s former roommate,) in 2 years the stock soars to $178 by April, 2007. But rather than harp on Amazon.com’s growth, look instead at the leadership he has provided to The Washington Post since acquiring it just over 2 years ago.

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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. Since its founding in 2007, this file storage startup from Silicon Valley has ballooned up to a 12 billion dollar US valuation in a little over a decade. Taxis, Records, and Toys: A tale of three industries.