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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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The 4C model of Creativity

Idea to Value

Yes, of course. In 2009, Professors James Kaufman and Ronald Beghetto published their breakthrough paper on Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity. Is it possible to be creative, even if you are not a genius changing the world? But how do you compare the creativity of a child, to someone who is a professional?

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IDEA 2009 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Innovation Parkour – IDEA 2009 View more documents from Normative. As a result, 90 percent of the word-of-mouth business she’s received since May 2009 can be tied directly to social media. Of course, there’s no one “right way&# to do things in this dynamic environment.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Download Making Virtual Worlds: Games and the Human for a Digital Age (IDEA 2009 Presentation) View more documents from tmmalaby. Of Course It Does! Instead of relying on top-down and procedural decision-making, these organizations contrive complex and game-like systems that promise to generate legitimate decisions from the ground up.

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Four Questions that every Entrepreneur must Answer

Destination Innovation

Let’s suppose that Travis Kalanick was asked these questions in 2009 when he was planning the launch of his new business idea, Uber. Of course there are lots of other questions to answer. What evidence do you have for these assertions? What tests have you carried out to validate your assumptions? How profitable will it be?

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Five Benefits of a Diverse Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Diversity Stops Embarrassment In 2009, HSBC launched a campaign with the slogan “Assume Nothing.” These are worth a chuckle, of course, but stop and ask yourself if you’re not falling into the same trap without even realizing it. The result was a wide variety of translations, including “Do Nothing.”

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Biden’s back door to free college

Christensen Institute

That, of course, will create more debt, only now students won’t be on the hook for much of it. above inflation from 2009-10 to 2019–20, for example. Taxpayers will. This isn’t really “free.” As higher interest rates are demonstrating, the public will get stuck with the bill and tradeoffs in the form of higher taxes or spending cuts.