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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

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. 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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Fly, Crash, Adapt

Destination Innovation

Paul MacCready (1925 – 2007) was an aeronautical engineer and inventor of the first human-powered aircraft. It promised £50,000 ($100,000) in prize money to the first group that could fly a human-powered aircraft over a figure-eight course covering a total of one mile and including certain height markers. Paul MacCready.

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How Facebook misses out on Talent

Destination Innovation

In 2007 at age 22 Mark Zuckerberg profoundly stated, ‘Younger people are just smarter. Of course some older people are complacent, stubborn and technology averse – but so are some youngsters. Consider these examples: Steve Jobs was 52 when as CEO of Apple he launched the iPhone in 2007. This is reflected in ageism in hiring.

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Changes in Leadership, Reflection, and Reduced Commitment to Outdated Plans

Michael Roberto

Further, such teams were better able to respond to feedback, to identify and correct errors in their updated plan and make course corrections by focusing on error reduction. Therefore, teams that experienced leadership change avoided escalation of commitment over time.

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Innovation Lessons from the Master, Steve Jobs

Destination Innovation

He dropped out of college but voluntarily took a course in calligraphy. The Apple iPhone was launched in 2007 and became the market leader in the mobile phone market. Steve Jobs was adopted at birth in 1955. He grew up in California. He found it beautiful and fascinating. He was an eclectic revolutionary.

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9 Way Bailey’s Irish Cream Can Help You Innovate

IdeaScale

On December 3rd, 2007, Diageo announced the sale of the billionth bottle of Baileys since it was first introduced in 1973. Feedback and validation is, of course, critical to the selection of an idea but the lesson here is to make sure you know what feedback you’re looking for. Lesson Eight: The Role of Feedback.

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Innovation’s New World Order

Innovation in Practice

We’ve done that analysis in this year’s study , comparing today’s data with the situation in 2007, when we first examined the globalization of corporate innovation spending. Innovation spending in Europe grew by only 9 percent from 2007 to 2015, while the amount of R&D spending European companies did in other regions increased 46%.

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