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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. Learning to absorb new knowledge for innovation.

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

CREATORS

In most cases, such tactics prove unsuccessful, yet few companies seem to have learned any lesson. Today, Financial Times Germany has ceased to exist (more specifically, closed all its operations on December 7th 2012), yet Axel Springer?—?the the “midget”?—?has We never made a bet. and FinTech. One of these companies?—?N26?—?became

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Management Innovation:  Busting Bureaucracy

Strategos

Recently, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Michele Zanini, and to learn more about their most recent work in Management Innovation. This too-brief summary of Gary and Michele’s recent work in Management Innovation has perhaps sparked some interest and desire to learn more. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2012.

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

Open Innovation EU

And for that reason it has become an integral criteria in many prescriptive regulations for (higher) education and in increasing numbers also explicitly and implicitly part of curricula (Saavedra & Opfer, 2012). Enterpreneurship is about finding the right mix between both causation and effectuation (Reymen et al.,

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The 10 Telltale Signs of Future Troubles for WalMart

Adam Hartung

4 – In April, 2012 WalMart found itself mired in a scandal regarding bribing Mexican government officials in its effort to grow sales. However, we learned the company had been paying bribes to obtain store sites and hold back local competitors. 7 – In July, 2015 Amazon’s market value exceeds WalMart’s.

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