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Creative people are more likely to cheat

Idea to Value

Research from 2012 suggests that people with higher creativity were more likely to be dishonest than less creative people. People usually associate creativity with positive things, like producing beautiful art , scientific breakthroughs or successful new innovations. But creativity might also have a dark side.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)

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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

For example, Scott Anthony (interviewed on the podcast here ), summarised his views in a 2012 HBR article about which companies might benefit from moving first: If you are what Professor Steven Spear calls a “high-velocity organization” that is always learning and improving, there are real benefits to moving first.

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn – Smart move or Dumb move?

Destination Innovation

It was an attempt to take on Google in online advertising and it failed. In 2012 the value of the business was written down to zero. Yahoo’s online advertising business is worth very little today. In 2008 in another attempt to take on Google Microsoft offered $45B for Yahoo.

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Digital Learning and the Realtime Marketing Lab Tour in a City Close to You!

BrainZooming

Related posts Join #BZBowl and Tweet on Super Bowl Advertising 2012 Super Bowl Advertising Experience – What Worked and Which Skin Sold Hardest? Mike Brown. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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Microsoft and Linked-In – Same Song, Different Key

Adam Hartung

And LInked-in still receives 2/3 of its revenue from recruiting ads (the balance is almost wholly subscription fees,) unable to find a wider advertiser base to support growth. Users will be thrilled to have their personal information analyzed by Microsoft big data tools, then sold to advertisers and recruiters. Even the $1.2B

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

They filed for bankruptcy in 2012. However, when they were told by an advertising company that their greatest threats were online retailers, downloadable music and supermarkets selling discounted products, they refused to believe it. Lesson: If you don’t do it, someone else will.

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