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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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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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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 November 9, 2012. Posted on July 30, 2012. The New Innovation Value Chain Perhaps?,

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Listen to Employees When Evaluating Leadership

Adam Hartung

Office Max appeared on the list (#5) in 2012, and was acquired by Office Depot 8 months later. And, of course, Radio Shack made the list in 2012 (#3,) 2013 (#5) and 2014 (#11) only to file bankruptcy in 2015. Employees have consistently expressed their dismay with CEO Ed Lampert, and 80% actively dislike his leadership.

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Ezassi Appoints Denise Fletcher as New Chief Innovation Officer

eZassi

In 2012, she was named one of the most powerful and influential women in Connecticut by the National Diversity Award Council. Two years later, she was named one of the top 40 women in innovation by Front End of Innovation and received two corporate entrepreneur awards for “best new service” in 2014 and “best new venture” in 2015.

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Starbucks and JPMorganChase Pay Raises – Just Following Trends

Adam Hartung

Let’s compare that to a few other costs at JPMC: May, 2012 a $2B of losses on bad trades from its London trading desk. August, 2012 a $1.2B May, 2015 a $550M fine for Eurodollar trade rigging. December, 2015 a $ 300M fine for conflicts of interest at its retail brokerage. Later that number was raised to $6B.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

Today, Financial Times Germany has ceased to exist (more specifically, closed all its operations on December 7th 2012), yet Axel Springer?—?the In 2013, Axel Springer made a minority investment in AirBnB upon the company’s leadership visit to the Silicon Valley. “We the “midget”?—?has We never made a bet. and FinTech.

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