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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures. 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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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

By leveraging solutions from Brazil’s innovators, the government can improve outcomes in its education system instead of waiting to fundamentally change the entire system. In short, doing well on the ENEM can change the trajectory of the life of a student from a low-income family. Thankfully there is hope.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Tapping into companies’ collective reservoir of relevant experiences, here’s a brief historical and current panorama of just how business leaders have strived to keep up with the changing times and landscapes – some successfully and some not – and how success can be achieved and failure minimized in our own extremely faced-paced era.

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Innovation in action: Value prior learning, no matter where that learning happens

Christensen Institute

This may be particularly important in our current moment, when so many students have had to stop out of their studies due to the pandemic, and won’t want to waste time on courses that they don’t need. We tracked these students’ educational activities from their matriculation in the 2011-2012 school year through the end of 2018.

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What Gap Inc. Can Learn From Signet Jewelers CEO Gina Drosos

Michael Roberto

Of course, to make all this happen, Drosos had to change a toxic culture and address the fallout from a sexual harassment scandal involving a prior CEO. Drosos, says that as a board member from 2012, she had always pushed for Signet to diversify its workforce and culture.

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How Can We Sustain this Innovation Pace AFTER the Pandemic?

BrainZooming

The first development driving greater innovation rests on a strategic change framework that we first developed and shared in 2012. Where an executive thinks they are among the quadrants and where they want to move to suggests their appetite for change. We’ve mainly applied the framework to think about driving change internally.

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Retaining the innovative spark

Jeffrey Phillips

Competition is accelerating, of course, and so is innovation. They are willing to do almost anything in order to succeed, and often change direction as their experimentation and new products succeed or fail. Complacency took precedence over innovation and change. Today it is 15 years. iTunes was released in 2001.