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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

by Brian Tracy – 2001 Mindset by Carol Dweck – 2006 Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann – 2007 Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – 2011 Thrive by Arianna Huffington – 2014 Atomic Habits by James Clear – 2018 The post Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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How Should Your Business Find the Next Big Thing?

IdeaScale

The value of this strategy is it forces you to look past the belief that what you already have is working, so why change it? Netflix’s streaming video model seems blindingly obvious now, but stop and consider the state of television in 2007.

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Companies that last through recessions share this marketing tactic

Brunner

If you ask Jeff Shill, the creative director at ad agency Brunner, that means building a marketing strategy heavy on emotion. Some stop advertising. Tactics and strategies should always evolve as needs dictate, but the emotional base of a brand cannot. In essence, you’re doubling down on the emotion of your advertising.

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn – Smart move or Dumb move?

Destination Innovation

This disaster followed Ballmer’s purchase of aQuantive for $6B in 2007. It was an attempt to take on Google in online advertising and it failed. Yahoo’s online advertising business is worth very little today. In 2012 the value of the business was written down to zero.

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Context matters

Boxes and Arrows

This becomes a strong habit and this strategy of scanning a visual stimulus is executed automatically, even if the viewed stimulus does not contain text. In short, web users tend to act as if they were blind to advertisements or other types of redundant information, which can only distract them from completing the task. Conclusion.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

From all these workshops I identified fifteen obstacles which may block you during the fuzzy front end along the path towards a successful new business case: Unclear strategy. When a major design conference came to town in 2007, they saw an opportunity to earn some extra cash by renting out their spare floor space. No market need.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

In 2007 a small-time, ailing Netflix actually thought they were going to be acquired by the Blockbusters giant, but they decided they didn’t want to. Lesson: If you don’t do it, someone else will. Blockbusters It’s a widely held belief that Blockbusters was killed by the rise of Netflix, but the reality is a lot worse.

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