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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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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.” Develop stronger marketing and branding. Part 1 of 3: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. Implement disruptive technologies.

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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.

System 53
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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

One , these companies operated in highly regulated markets. In 2015, they filed for bankruptcy, finally ceding their throne to mobile rideshares like Uber and Lyft. Tiny startups are restructuring of entire industries when they exploiting existing market failures to serve new customer needs.

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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. Leaving Sears’ market “hollowed out.” So that was where he had leadership focus. But they were wrong. What should Lampert have done?

Trends 36
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Becoming Real Innovators

Technology Created

” Research Policy 36 (2007) 274–287 The Structure of Invention (n.d.): Photo by woodleywonderworks / CC_BY. [1] 1] “Innovation in 2014.” ” [link]. BCG Perspectives, 28 Oct. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! New York: Random House, 1990. 3] [link]. [4] 4] Arthur, W. “The Structure of Invention.”

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

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).