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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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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

Posted on September 25, 2015. Moving towards a new innovation service model, Posted on August 12, 2015. A new innovation perspective – change to fluidity, Posted on June 29, 2015. Posted on January 4, 2015. Posted on September 21, 2011. Posted on August 26, 2011. Posted on July 27, 2011.

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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. We continue to see more and more Chief Innovation Officers at the enterprise level. But what does a Chief Innovation Officer do? Well, here are a few of their responsibilities.

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Listen to Employees When Evaluating Leadership

Adam Hartung

And, of course, Radio Shack made the list in 2012 (#3,) 2013 (#5) and 2014 (#11) only to file bankruptcy in 2015. The stock was $66 in June, 2011, and $55 in 6/12 when it made #6. Employees have consistently expressed their dismay with CEO Ed Lampert, and 80% actively dislike his leadership.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

In 2017, the entire eight-person, executive management team (except for the CFO) of Sweetgreen quit of their own accord after the company had record growth in 2015 and 2016. By 2011, they had several established stores in the Washington DC area and were ready to expand. In 2011, customers were saying “Wow. – Michael Raynor.

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

Open Innovation EU

Corbett & Katz, 2012; Neck & Greene, 2011): The authors argue that are five different practices of educating entrepreneurship: Practice of play: ‘the skill of play frees the imagination, opens up our minds to a wealth of opportunities and possibilities, and helps us to be more innovative as entrepreneurs’ (Neck, Neck, & Murray, 2017).