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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? 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. 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

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison.

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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. Fellow dragon Deborah Meadon, chief of a holiday business, firmly stated that there was no market for the ride-on suitcase. Originally Trunkis were made in China but in 2012 Rob Law set up a factory in Plymouth. Rob Law and Trunki.

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

Christensen Institute

In our paper, Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s education paradox , we highlight two main development strategies, push and pull. Since 2012, unemployment in Brazil has more than doubled from about 6% to 14%. 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.

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Retaining the innovative spark

Jeffrey Phillips

They were in a desperate fight with Fuji to retain market share in film, as the digital camera sales were ramping up. Competition is accelerating, of course, and so is innovation. Products As the company grows and develops products, part of its flexibility is lost, because it must sustain the products and protect market share.

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

Michael Roberto

Thus, they focus on overlapping target markets with product offerings that are not clearly distinguishable at times. 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. They cannibalize each other's sales far too often.