Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Make an effort to read books, articles, and blog posts on a variety of topics, even if you don't think you'll be interested in them. Take books on strange tropics from the library. Be more childlike. Read widely: Reading is the best way to expose yourself to new ideas and perspectives.

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Stephen Shapiro

MARCH 24, 2025

(And why Id probably do it again) In June 2024, I released what might be my most important book to date: PIVOTAL: Creating Stability in an Uncertain World. A new book. The lesson here isnt about books. The post Why Writing My Latest Book Was a Huge Mistake appeared first on Stephen Shapiro. A new idea. Its about focus.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures. But how much time would it have taken?

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Digital Tonto

MAY 29, 2022

No matter what’s going on during the year, I always look forward to summer. I love the heat and, despite spending 15 years in frigid Eastern European countries, I hate the cold. Every year I. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Jules Verne predicted the Moon Landing in his book, From the Earth to the Moon, written in 1865. Arthur C Clarke’s book, 2001 : A Space Odyssey, published in 1968 envisioned ‘newspads’ which astronauts used to find out what was going on. The E-Book was predicted by Slanslaw Lem in his book, Return from the Stars, in 1961.

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Digital Tonto

MAY 26, 2024

Yet […] The post 11 Books That Will Make You A Better Communicator first appeared on Digital Tonto. , everybody was wondering whether humans had a future or whether we would all be at the mercy of “our new robot overlords.” ” It was an exciting and confusing time. Related posts: Values Always Cost You Something.

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Innovators Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Check out these recommendations from previous blog posts: 2024 Innovation Resources Summer Edition: Entrepreneurial Books, Podcasts and Tools 2023 Innovation Resources Wrapped: Entrepreneurial Books, Podcasts and Tools The post 2024 Innovation Resources Wrapped: Entrepreneurial Books, Podcasts, and Tools appeared first on Innovators Alliance.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 4, 2021

Perry wrote the highest-selling book on internet advertising, the Utlimate Guide to Google Ads , and has since spent his time refining the 80/20 Pareto principle into strategies to help companies focus on the parts of their business which bring the most reward. Book: [link]. Times of great uncertainty are times of great opportunity.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 24, 2022

Initially the business sold books door-to-door. McConnell gave samples of perfume as an incentive for book sales but found that demand for the perfume exceeded that for the books. It became a network equipment manufacturer. Avon was founded by David McConnell in New York in 1886.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

His invention revolutionized the production of books and other printed materials, playing a crucial role in the spread of knowledge and information during the Renaissance and beyond. He bannd the printing of books in Arabic or Turkish scripts. The ban was in effect until the 18th century.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Kaiser Yang, Founder of Platypus Labs and author of the upcoming innovation book Crack the Code: 8 Surprising Keys to unlock innovation. Crack the Code book: [link]. We speak about what it takes to apply creativity to build successful innovations.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

One of the most famous scenes from Mark Twain’s book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is when Tom has to whitewash a fence as a punishment. Mark Twain. His friend Ben Rogers comes along to ridicule him about having to work. Tom ignores him and concentrates on painting, so Ben eventually asks if he likes doing it. Tom replies, “Like it?

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Destination Innovation

MAY 2, 2019

Roger Hargreaves and the Mr Men Books. It became the central character in Hargreaves’ first book, Mr Tickle. He had difficulty finding a publisher willing to take on the work but eventually the book was published and went on to be the start of the Mr Men series of books which have sold over 90 million copies.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 10, 2020

These puzzles are based on a chapter in the book, World’s Best Word Puzzles, by Paul Sloane and Des MacHale. Please enter your answer in the box below the question. The answers are not case-sensitive but you have to spell the word correctly. You will get a score at the end of the quiz. GGH, smart alec (7). ABC edible (7).

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 3, 2022

Taken from this book. How can you divide the coins into two piles each of which will have an equal number of heads up? There is no deception in the wording or cheap trick in the solution. The puzzle is as described and it can be solved using a simple mathematical idea. On Amazon.co.uk. On Amazon.com.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Alex is also the author of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less and his new book SHORTER: WORK BETTER, SMARTER, AND LESS– HERE’S HOW. Book: Shorter: Work Better, Smarter and Less – Here’s How: [link]. 00:09:00 – The problem with associating time worked with productivity.

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Idea to Value

MAY 5, 2022

We speak about his new book Plays well with others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong , and the scientific insights we can all use to have stronger and healthier relationships. 00:07:15 – His new book, and what we can learn about strengthening relationships.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 19, 2021

Read a random book or magazine. More advice in this book: On Amazon.co.uk. Ask more questions, more childlike questions, more provocative questions. E.g. ask ‘what if……?’ ’ Incorporate the random. Take a random route to work. Speak to random people. Read poetry and fiction. Visit art galleries. Keep going.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 23, 2022

Contact me for the answers or you can find them in this book, Think Like an Innovator. Doctor whose development of the smallpox vaccine saved millions of lives. The woman who founded modern nursing techniques and introduced the concept of pie charts. Available on Amazon.co.uk. Also available on Amazon.com.

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Idea to Value

JULY 15, 2021

He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis as well as author of some of the most important books and hundreds of pieces of research around genius and creativity. Links mentioned in this episode: Book: The Genius Checklist: [link].

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Idea to Value

APRIL 7, 2022

Links mentioned in this episode: Book Link: [link]. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – Andy’s background with IBM’s Emerging Business opportunities, and how this brought him to the idea that corporations can innovate better than startups. Change Logic: [link].

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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2021

It is mainly what Matthew Syed calls the ‘outsider mindset’ in his book, Rebel Ideas. Why are immigrants better than natives when it comes to innovation, invention and entrepreneurship? They have experienced a different country and a different culture.

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Idea to Value

JULY 9, 2021

A few years ago I had a very interesting discussion with Lisa Bodell , CEO of Futurethink and bestselling author of innovation books Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She told me about how most employees waste far too much time in meetings and answering emails. They were too busy to get any real work done throughout the day.

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Idea to Value

MAY 19, 2021

One of the most influential proponents of this way of thinking is author Julia Cameron, who wrote one of the most widely-cited creativity books of all time: The Artist’s Way. For many of them, the moments of inspiration seem to take on almost a spiritual nature.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

On this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Colin Hunter, CEO of Potential Squared and author of the upcoming book Be More Wrong. 00:20:00 – Be More Wrong book. 00:20:00 – Be More Wrong book. Links mentioned in this episode: Be more Wrong book: [link]. Colin’s Linkedin Profile: [link].

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Idea to Value

MARCH 9, 2022

Book publishers. With the cost of printing books only making economic sense when thousands of copies would be printed, publishers needed to select authors who they thought would sell in large volumes. Casting agents. Record company executives. Gallery curators. TV Network producers. Newspaper editors. Agency directors.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 21, 2022

00:17:00 – Her Book: Designing the Life you Love. 00:23:30 – Research into what older people want out of their lives, and her upcoming book: Design the Long Life you Love. 00:17:00 – Her Book: Designing the Life you Love. Book: Design the life you Love: [link]. Ayse’s website: [link].

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 1, 2020

He is the author of 5 books on how to get the best creative performance out of yourself and creative teams, the Founder of the Accidental Creative and the podcast of the same name, and author of the upcoming book The Motivation Code. I would suggest you get a copy of the book and the assessment to find out more about yourself as well.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 23, 2024

He speaks about when he set his goals, he almost always set his ultimate measure of success as being “the best”: When I wrote my first business book, The Idea Book, I wanted it to be ranked as one of the best. Other business books which outsold his. There were always other speakers who earned more than him.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With nearly 2 million followers on Linkedin, she is one of the most popular speakers and experts on innovation, and we speak about her new book Smart Growth: How to Grow your People to Grow your Company. Links mentioned in this episode: Smart Growth Book: [link]. 00:03:00 – What is growth and the S-Curve popularised by E.

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