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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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6 Leadership Roles to Expand Innovative, Collaborative Thinking

BrainZooming

For example, while designing and facilitating an early Brainzooming online collaboration in 2013, a nonprofit’s leader decided to change his participant role. His strategy opened the door to other intriguing perspectives leaders can adopt to expand their personal leadership repertoires. . Was afraid to address.

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The Nuclear Way: Submarine Leadership Challenges

MSSBTI

How would you adjust to transferring from a self contained organization with a command and control leadership style to one with a distributed leadership style? This is where the shift in leadership style from command and control to distributive pays off. How would you adapt? How would you prepare? And how would you be received?

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

In 2013 it became a holacracy without job titles, where employees could self-organize. One of the company’s core values is to “be adventurous, creative and open minded.” The company is famous for encouraging people to express their creativity and for allowing them to fail. In 2013 he pledged $350m for the project.

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Never stop investing in yourself. It’s vital for staying creative

Idea to Value

But it teaches an important lesson about staying creative. This is vital for enabling your brain to form new associations between disparate ideas (one of the true roots of creativity). Now usually the sort of conferences I go to are in the field of creativity or innovation because that is what my primary business is.

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Do 80% of new businesses really fail? Not even close

Idea to Value

One of the most commonly cited figures is that 80% of startup businesses fail within 18 months, which apparently comes from a Forbes article in 2013. Do you like insights into innovation and leadership like this? However, the actual source of this figure is almost impossible to find.

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Three Real World Examples of Crowdsourcing in Education

IdeaScale

In education, flexibility, creativity, and thoughtful application are rewarded. Columbia has prided itself on student-driven change since its founding, and in 2013, it wanted to take that a step further with “What To Fix Columbia,” cheekily abbreviated as “WTF Columbia.” Education is about more than going to class. Columbia University.