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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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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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Listen to Employees When Evaluating Leadership

Adam Hartung

Office Max appeared on the list (#5) in 2012, and was acquired by Office Depot 8 months later. And, of course, Radio Shack made the list in 2012 (#3,) 2013 (#5) and 2014 (#11) only to file bankruptcy in 2015. Employees have consistently expressed their dismay with CEO Ed Lampert, and 80% actively dislike his leadership.

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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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16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies

BrainZooming

How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? What can we do to deliver innovations when they need to get to market vs. when we’re done tinkering? Branding and Marketing. What’s the heart of our brand that we can double down on right away? Which ones would we accelerate?

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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. Posted on November 9, 2012. Posted on July 30, 2012. The period of 2012 to 2014 was a far from quiet time. There is a search for new solutions. Posted on August 20, 2013.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

David Gram, Head of Marketing at Lego’s Future Lab, said, “We only develop the few key features that are really needed. We throw it into the market and get feedback from consumers.”. In 2012 Lego launched ‘Lego Friends’ with a more realistic ‘mini-doll’ Sales to girls tripled.