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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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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. Thankfully there is hope.

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How to Take Meaning from a Black Swan Event

The Inovo Group

. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, 2012. Normally, Inovo’s subscribers turn to us to understand strategic innovation – how to create growth and manage uncertainty. The answer to this question lies in Taleb’s follow-on book called Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012).

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Originally developed by the strategy consultants at Monitor (now part of Deloitte) and made famous by a breakthrough article in Harvard Business Review by Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, the Ambition Matrix is a tool which helps companies identify ways to execute their strategy around where to play and how to win.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

Although I addressed why this was critical, I realized I never give readers specific tools on how to do this. November 2019: My focus moved from the book creation to marketing. December 2019: More focus on marketing and tools. January 2019: We are still focused on marketing and tools. The list grew over time.

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Innovation lessons from Lego

Jeffrey Phillips

Rather, I suspect that a company that had been on the brink of bankruptcy only a little over a decade ago discovered how to innovate in desperation, and began to neglect innovation as growth accelerated. What we are seeing now is the aftermath of too little innovation and too much marketing. What lessons can we learn?

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How to create a scalable strategy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

mjvinnovation

Even before the pandemic, entrepreneurs already had a difficult time remaining relevant in an increasingly competitive market. This guarantees your foothold in the market for much longer. How to become scalable. All while expanding their operations in the market, of course! What does it mean to be scalable?