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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. McDonald’s has been losing market share to fast casual restaurants for over a decade.

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

Idea to Value

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? I once had a manager who I was working with on a money-raising program. However, my manager instructed me to continue showing predictions that it was perfectly possible that we would meet the targets, something I argued with him about often.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

Increasingly we are seeing a growing dissatisfaction on the impact that innovation is having; in growth, in returns, in market and customer impact. 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.

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2015

Innovation Excellence

2015 was the fourth full year of operations for Innovation Excellence. To celebrate we've pulled together a list of the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2015. But enough delay, here are the 100 most popular innovation posts of 2015 (each receiving 7,400 - 56,000 page views): Continue reading →

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

Planbox, the pioneering provider of AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management software, and Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in Corporate Innovation Management according to Forrester Research, will join forces to seize on the innovation boom. This transaction is pending the final approval of Imaginatik shareholders by January 31, 2019.

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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

But in a series of fast actions during 2015, DuPont as it has been known is going away. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it. Many felt leadership was over-spending on overhead costs like R&D,product development and headquarters personnel. But this victory was quite short-lived.