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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. Elon Musk has helped shape the company’s many innovations. Insights for Innovators. In his own way he wants to use science and entrepreneurship to make the world a better place. Bypass the normal channels. On Amazon.co.uk.

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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

BMI Think Tank travelled to China for a Business Model Innovation Study Trip. A great opportunity to understand how China has evolved into a global innovation power. Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem. China is no longer just the home of copycats.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Fed Up Entrepreneurship. innovative alternatives. Will there be battles and skirmishes about.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. It’s this growth and the insights into Apple’s operations that helped Samsung and Foxconn craft their own spectacular rises to power.

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Henry Ford, Innovation, and That "Faster Horse" Quote

Harvard Business Review

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?