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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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Elon Musk – Serial Entrepreneur and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Destination Innovation

It became PayPal and he held 11% of the stock when it was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5B. In his own way he wants to use science and entrepreneurship to make the world a better place. Zip2 was an early internet success and in 1999 he sold it to Compaq Computer Corporation for $330m. He has set out to make a big impact.

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What’s More Important Than Following Your Dreams?

Innovation Excellence

Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002-2007, loved to talk about dreams. The path to success may be paved with dreams but navigating it requires more than wishful thinking. My favorite of his many quotes about them is, “Dream is not the thing you see in sleep, but is that thing that doesn’t let you.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

Dr. HAN, Zheng , Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tongji University Shanghai). BYD became the second largest battery company in 2002. Dr. HAN, Zheng , Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tongji University Shanghai). In 2003 BYD created an automotive subsidiary, specializing in building electric cars.

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Starting a Business Can Increase Older Workers’ Quality of Life (Even When It Doesn’t Pay Well)

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship is not always about the money, and late-career individuals who voluntarily transition to it are generally better off. Our data came from five biennial surveys conducted between 2002 and 2011 for the English Longitudinal Study of Aging funded by the UK government. Our analyses yielded some further results.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Fed Up Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship as an "alternative investment" may hold growing appeal to institutional investors seeking "growth stories" and diversification options. Who would have picked hydraulic fracturing as a disruptive business/technology breakthrough in 2002? Will there be battles and skirmishes about.

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Breaking Down the Freelance Economy

Harvard Business Review

But while there’s some evidence to back this up, such as the Census Bureau’s annual tally of “nonemployer businesses,” which shows a 29% rise from 2002 to 2012, government data on the phenomenon is pretty spotty. Economy Entrepreneurship Human resources' This new survey of 5,052 U.S.

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