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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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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music. After all, the first portable MP3 players hit the market in 1998 and by 2001 there were over 50 different models available through which you could download and play music from your computer.

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So What Exactly Should Kodak Have Done?

Destination Innovation

In 1976 Kodak enjoyed 90% market share of film sales and 85% share of camera sales in the USA. It is easy for the outside observer with the benefit of hindsight to be smug and critical of the Kodak board and its strategy. Kodak entered the digital camera market late but by 2001 they were number 2 in the USA behind Sony.

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What Can Your Business Learn About Innovation from Shark Tank Ideas?

IdeaScale

Shark Tank has been around in some form or another since 2001, with the Japanese series “Money Tigers.” Yet, when it comes to innovation strategy, the show can teach businesses quite a bit about how to refine and launch ideas. Here are six things the show can teach businesses about innovation strategy. Humility First.

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What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?

IdeaScale

Instead of custom Macs for dozens of different customer bases, Jobs laid down the rules that the company would focus on four products: One desktop model and one portable model for the personal consumer market and the business market. And until 2001, that was it.

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The Orange Socks Story I’ve Never Written Before

BrainZooming

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Fast forward to last summer 2001: Chuck Salter of Fast Company was preparing an article on the turnaround at Yellow. Current Orange Socks.

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Setting yourself apart through Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Year after year, this analysis has proven that those firms identified as being the most effective innovators consistently outperform their peers and the market.” Average return has been 14.5% CAGR and in 2016 , growth was 18.9% – significantly higher than S&P500, NASDAQ and FTSE 100. ” Now is that surprising?