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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. Full-on participant.

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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

While there, as a student job he managed a pizza grill. In 2013 it became a holacracy without job titles, where employees could self-organize. Managers make cultural assessments rather than performance evaluations and give raises based on skill tests. It offers leadership training courses including the “School of Wow.”.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intensified use of (rapid) prototyping.

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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. A Banks jumped onto the list as #4 in 2013. And, of course, Radio Shack made the list in 2012 (#3,) 2013 (#5) and 2014 (#11) only to file bankruptcy in 2015.

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How to Navigate the New Normal of Employee Well-Being

Business and Tech

We have embraced flexible working since 2013 and allowed our people to work from home or remotely and stagger their working hours if they wish to. Studies have found that 90 percent of employees desire communication from their organization’s leadership at least once a week.

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