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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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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

One of his course assignments in 1997 was to come up with a new design for luggage. Originally Trunkis were made in China but in 2012 Rob Law set up a factory in Plymouth. Rob Law and Trunki. Rob Law studied Product Design at Northumbria University. He did some research by going to a local department store.

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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

High ENEM test scores are correlated with higher income and, before Descomplica, test prep courses were expensive. These courses were largely available to the wealthy and, because of how important they are to university admission and getting a good job, they simply bred more inequality.

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Crowdfunding Efforts in the Wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria and the Earthquake

IdeaScale

After Hurricane Sandy in 2012 , lots of neighborhoods turned to crowdfunding to help them replace materials that they lost in the storm: clothes, household goods, and damaged streets and basements. Of course, many who donated were friends and relations, but some were total strangers.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

A while ago I sat down with Machiel Wetselaar & David van Dinther to create a list of innovation methodologies for a course we’re developing. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2012 more…. Design Thinking Process (Stanford).

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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

Since 2012, unemployment in Brazil has more than doubled from about 6% to 14%. The eduK platform, which offers professional courses that uses a methodology that helps people learn fast, is reversing this trend. The platform currently hosts 3,200 courses, 1,100 experts, and more than 8 million subscribers.

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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

There are of course examples of individuals who have either immense talent, physical advantages or sheer willpower to train and practice harder and better than anyone else, that are a factor in success. However, in the 200m butterfly in London 2012, Phelps was beaten by South Africa’s Chad Le Clos by just five one-hundredths of a second.