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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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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). Entrepreneurship. Simple logic leads to the fact that entrepreneurial thinking is more common than entrepreneurship.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. Drucker “presents innovation and entrepreneurship as a practice and a discipline.” He focuses on the Practice of innovation, Practice of entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial strategies. Here is a video that might interest you.)

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

This model is drawn upon a combination of Quinn & Cameron’s values framework (2011) and Nagji and Tuff’s innovation ambition framework (2012). Value proposition design: How to create products and services customers want. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(4), 351–379. The typology proposes 4 types of organizations.

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

However, the gay community has a long history of contributions to science and entrepreneurship. Although she was married to a man until the mid-1980s, by the time of her death in 2012, Ride had been in a 27-year relationship with a female partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy. Lana and Lilly Wachowski. Lana and Lilly Wachowski.

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How can We Encourage Experimentation and Risk Taking Among Our Employees

Rmukesh Gupta

It is not enough for us as entrepreneurs to define what a SMART experiment looks like and how to design one for our employees to start experimenting. Dave Burgess, author of Teach Like a Pirate (2012) asks this great metaphorical question about whether or not you are walking the talk. We need to walk the talk.

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