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

Idea to Value

Here is the original image of the Ambition Matrix from the article: Original Image of the Ambition Matrix from HBR 2012. ”, which relate to which customer groups and markets you are trying to sell to. Transformational: Breakthrough innovations for markets that don’t yet exist in the business (or even the world).

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

Increasingly we are seeing a growing dissatisfaction on the impact that innovation is having; in growth, in returns, in market and customer impact. Seeking a new middle management’s innovation perspective. Posted on November 9, 2012. Posted on July 30, 2012. The period of 2012 to 2014 was a far from quiet time.

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Listen to Employees When Evaluating Leadership

Adam Hartung

Often this leads to employee unhappiness with senior management, frequently offering low evaluations of the CEO – who makes 1,000 times their annual earnings. Office Max appeared on the list (#5) in 2012, and was acquired by Office Depot 8 months later. In 2012 the stock rose from $54 to $66, yet appeared #2 on the list.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. There is no intent of introducing new products or entering new markets via this merger. 2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes.

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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. Products As the company grows and develops products, part of its flexibility is lost, because it must sustain the products and protect market share. For many firms this is the start of inertia and inflexibility.