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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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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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Soren Kaplan’s Leapfrogging May Newsletter

Leapfrogging

2015 has so far been monumental for women. How To Learn New Words Quickly and Efficiently. WomEngineering – Women matter in Operations – June 18 & 19, 2015 Chateau de Mery (Paris) France. 11th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference -10 &11 June, 2015 New York, NY.

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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

One area where Goodhart’s Law gets even more dangerous is in target-based software development, especially Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. As a harmless example, an early Artificial Intelligence learned that in order to not die while playing Tetris, at a certain point the most effective move was just to pause the game.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

Posted on September 25, 2015. Moving towards a new innovation service model, Posted on August 12, 2015. A new innovation perspective – change to fluidity, Posted on June 29, 2015. Posted on January 4, 2015. Learning to absorb new knowledge for innovation. The New Innovation Value Chain Perhaps?,

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How to Make a Business Case for Learning and Development

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Although more businesses than ever now appreciate the benefits of learning and development, there are still those digging their heels in and ignoring the evidence that a robust learning and development programme offers a great deal of benefits to companies of all kinds.