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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? But how much time would it have taken?

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. Stay tuned for more…

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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

For example, Scott Anthony (interviewed on the podcast here ), summarised his views in a 2012 HBR article about which companies might benefit from moving first: If you are what Professor Steven Spear calls a “high-velocity organization” that is always learning and improving, there are real benefits to moving first.

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Finally – An Idea Platform That Isn’t Terrible

Your Ideas are Terrible

Back in 2012, we noticed a lot of corporations were deploying idea platforms. Using Ideator, teams work collaboratively and alongside our lean startup coaches as they validate and refine concepts. Ideator didn’t build an idea platform – they built an innovation network. Crucially, coaches offer support in the moment.

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Innovation System Thinking on a Sunday! What, no roast or glass of wine? Later.

Paul Hobcraft

That part of the day spent on innovation, researching and reading, tends to partly stimulate my week ahead in different ways as I try to reinforce what I’ve learned by applying this to the work gathered around me at that point of time, it does help shape and influence it, it ‘fuels’ the coming in week in some part.

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We Don’t Research. We Build.

Boxes and Arrows

But self-education, the freelance “UX Team of One,” and Twitter conversations can’t really match the learning and practice potential of working with others, so I keep looking for full-time UX opportunities. It’s my standard question of any new project, and, I was learning, also a good gauge of where companies were in their process.