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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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3 Innovation Lessons from The Departed

Innovation Excellence

The film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2007 and earned Martin Scorsese his first, and to date only, Academy Award for Best Director. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton It’s award season, which means that, as a resident of Boston, I have the responsibility and privilege to talk about The Departed (pronounced: The Dep-ah-ted).

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

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. Krueger, 2007). That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

At the centre are the innovation brokers: consultancy firms, education professionals and knowledge brokers who do not directly work with innovation, but accelerate it (Chesbrough, 2007). Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(4), 351–379. The quest for professionalism: The case of management and entrepreneurship. doi:10.1002/sej.1201.

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What’s More Important Than Following Your Dreams?

Innovation Excellence

Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002-2007, loved to talk about dreams. The path to success may be paved with dreams but navigating it requires more than wishful thinking. My favorite of his many quotes about them is, “Dream is not the thing you see in sleep, but is that thing that doesn’t let you.

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Surviving & thriving in the entrepreneurs game

ImagineNation

Whilst the World Economic Forum in its New Models for Entrepreneurship Report states that; “Entrepreneurs are key drivers of economic and social progress. million business start-ups between 2007 and 2014, & found the average age of people who founded a business and went on to hire at least one employee was 42 years old.

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How to spot the next big thing

hackerearth

In 2007, a Wall Street Journal article titled “ Together We Innovate ” stressed the importance of working together in an organization to encourage new ideas irrespective of hierarchy and rank. Crowdfunding brings entrepreneurship and philanthropy together and enables many investors to support companies for profit as well as purpose.

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