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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 to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement

Tullio Siragusa

How to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement. This is the kind of leadership behavior that takes organizations to the horizons of success with millions of satisfied customers, content employees, and record level profits. A 2013 study by Forbes reflects that leaders who give effective feedback are more trusted by their teams.

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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. New hires spend their first few weeks manning phones in the call centre learning how to respond to customer needs. It offers leadership training courses including the “School of Wow.”. In 2013 he pledged $350m for the project.

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Three Real World Examples of Crowdsourcing in Education

IdeaScale

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.” To learn more about how to use such innovative platforms, download Crowdsourcing-in-Education today! Columbia University.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

Idea to Value

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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Design Thinking Case Studies

InnovationTraining.org

By reviewing their successes (and failures), you can learn how to incorporate innovation and design thinking methodology into your own processes, practices, and people. In 2013, GGRC began working with the Stanford d.school to learn the basics of design thinking. Contact us online today to learn how to get started.