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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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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

This is the second in a series of articles about the convergence of strategy and innovation. For more information about the series, and a list of published and upcoming articles, please visit A New Era of Strategy and Innovation. Most strategies are built on specific beliefs about the future. Highlights.

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

Idea to Value

Often, this focus on just meeting the specific targets can take focus and effort away from meeting the more important overall targets aligned with achieving the company’s strategy. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. What is the strategy?

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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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8 Innovative Baby Boomer Knowledge Management and Retention Strategies

Idea to Value

Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.”. While many baby boomers are preparing to leave the workforce; organizational leadership at most companies are not prepared to lose them. Census Bureau.