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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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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Human beings are meant to be creative. One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another.

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

By 2009, he had grown revenues to $1 billion. One of the company’s core values is to “be adventurous, creative and open minded.” The company is famous for encouraging people to express their creativity and for allowing them to fail. It offers leadership training courses including the “School of Wow.”. It reached No.

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Why mutual obligation is the key to leading for innovation

Cris Beswick

When I talk about leadership in the context of innovation, I’m always particular about using the phrase ‘leading FOR innovation’ not ‘innovation leadership’ because building a culture for innovation isn’t about leaders becoming innovators; it’s about leaders building a system and environment where innovation can thrive.

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10 Years of Brainzooming to Help You Create Amazing Possibilities

BrainZooming

On November 2, 2009, we launched Brainzooming as a new company helping organizations across industries imagine and implement strategy, branding, and innovation initiatives. The Idea Magnets book on creative leadership. It is certainly obvious now. They now include: A variety of free eBooks.

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The Ambidextrous Organization

Open Innovation EU

Especially in the field of Entrepreneurship, there are findings that this is true: We conclude that the interaction between the two (creative rdesign and scientific validation) can drive the continual renewal of the entrepreneurship field and unlock the potential of an inclusive body of knowledge that is both rigorous and relevant.

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Leading the Tired Team

CMOE

We were flexible, creative, and resourceful, and it showed. Emily Hodgson-Soule has worked with CMOE since 2009 and is the Director of Program Design and Development. Mead has experience in operations management, leadership development curriculum design, organization development consulting, and international operations.

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