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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures. 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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BD Named 2015 Outstanding Corporate Innovator Winner by Product Development and Management Association

Innovation in Practice

The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals, announced today that it has awarded the 2015 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award to BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX). 7-11 in Anaheim, Calif. 7-11 in Anaheim, Calif.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

Christensen Institute

But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

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Practice Your Way to Winning in 2015

The Human Factor

To improve your chances of winning in 2015, practice the following winning habits. Purposefully seeking data that “proves you wrong” can help with mid-course corrections (before it’s too late), and can often prevent bad decisions before they get fully implemented. We are, in effect, practicing not to win. Focus on winning every day.

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How Facebook misses out on Talent

Destination Innovation

Little wonder then that Bloomberg reported that 150 of the USA largest tech firms were sued 226 times for age discrimination from 2008 to 2015. Of course some older people are complacent, stubborn and technology averse – but so are some youngsters. Why are most chess masters under 30?’.

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Gaining a Competitive Edge Through eLearning by Costa

CMOE

As eLearning becomes more popular as an alternative to traditional instructor-led training, organizations have a plethora of off-the-shelf courses to choose from. Such courses offer a cost-effective and easy way for organizations to venture into the realm of eLearning. Improved Business Performance.

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

In 2015, it became clear that instead of being able to develop a diesel car which met emmissions standards (a huge engineering challenge), something had allowed a situation to develop where the chosen course of action was to lie and pretend like they had achieved the standards.