Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

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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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

From its beginnings in a garage selling books over the internet, it’s become a technological and social behemoth redefining not just book sales, but commerce, upending entire industries and putting pressure on entire sectors of the economy to innovate or else. Innovate Outside Your Edges. Contact us !

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As you may know, as a noted (ahem) blogger and voracious reader, I am sometimes asked to review books on strategy and innovation. Even after choosing some books to review, I often find myself asking - did the book actually meet my criteria? All this in advance of a book I want to like, but struggle to review, entitled A.L.I.E.N.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 19, 2021

Learn problem analysis methods such as six sigma and why, why. Learn critical path methods. Read a random book or magazine. More advice in this book: On Amazon.co.uk. Here are ten ways to develop your logical thinking skills. Play chess. Solve soduko puzzles. Study Mathematics. Study German or Latin. Visit art galleries.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

We are all presently learning a new practice. We need to ditch much of the endeavors that make up a legacy of past practice, and think forward, to which the term next practice becomes the learning spot. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 12, 2022

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to read and review a number of books in the innovation and strategy space, and I find many of the books have interesting insights or promote new ideas but often aren't overly actionable. It should be a book that all managers read. However, I've always found the insights of Roger Martin useful.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 13, 2021

Review a book. Lessons we can Learn from the Three Greatest Photographers of the Last Century. What can you write about? Lists are always appealing. Ask a question then answer it. Here are some suggestions. Say you are an expert photographer, you could pen these titles: A. The Six Most Common Mistakes that Amateur Photographers Make.

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Econic

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We’re starting with books we’ve read recently. In commitment to ongoing learning connected to our Advancing Social Justice core value , many of us read Braiding Sweetgrass. Rilke's Book of Hours by Anita Barrows. If you enjoy listening to books, check out the audiobook of Greenlights narrated by McConaughey.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In his short but enjoyable book Steal like an Artist , Austin Kleon suggests that all great artists started off by copying others, and then slowly learning their crafts through repetition before finally developing their own style. We learn to write by copying down the alphabet. Musicians learn to play by practising scales.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 25, 2020

podcast and author of Screw Being Shy: Learn How to Manage Social Anxiety and Be Yourself in Front of Anyone. 00:15:15 – Humans take much longer than other animals to learn about the external and internal world. 00:15:15 – Humans take much longer than other animals to learn about the external and internal world.

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2021

Prof du Sautoy is widely known for his work to popularise mathematics, is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and author of the bestselling book The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI. Links mentioned in this episode: Book: The Creativity Code: [link]. The example from the game of Go.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

00:25:00 – Openness to learning. The Leading Edge book: [link]. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:45 – Her own history in trying to lead Change programs around the world. 00:03:45 – The stereotypical myths of leaders which are no longer applicable. 00:22:00 – Talking to an individual about their impact.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. This book lays out how businesses can do everything right and still lose out on innovation.

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Idea to Value

MAY 11, 2022

There is a famous story about students who learned this lesson the hard way, which I first saw on James Clear’s blog and originally an extract from the book Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by photographers David Bayles and Ted Orland.

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Tim Kastelle

DECEMBER 28, 2014

This is a lesson that Timothy Prestero and his organisation Design that Matters learned painfully. Ideas that do both are what Mark Payne calls two-sided solutions in his book How to Kill a Unicorn. Payne’s book mostly describes working with companies that are using tools like design thinking to support innovation.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 23, 2017

Competing Against Luck is the rather curious title of a new book by the eminent innovation guru, Clayton Christensen, ably assisted by three acolytes, Hall, Dillon and Duncan. One of the most valuable parts of the book is the chapter on Job Hunting – how do you find the jobs that customers want done?

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 15, 2023

In his story The Library of Babel, Borges describes a library which contains books with all potential word combinations in all possible languages. Such a place would encompass all possible knowledge, but would also be completely useless, because the vast majority of books would be gibberish consisting of random strings of symbols.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 14, 2021

Links mentioned in this episode: Innovating through Chaos book: [link]. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – Adi’s story starting with product design and getting fired from her job while holding her baby. 00:05:00 – Why Israel is such a hotbed of innovation, and why their people are so confident.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 3, 2021

This example is examined in the book Meltdown by Chris Clearfield and Andras Tilcsik. It reviews what we can learn from disastrous failures. If you adopt a more receptive, listening style in your meetings you will encourage and get more ideas than if you are firm and authoritative.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 11, 2023

If you are a regular reader (or a subscriber to the newsletter ), you know I rarely do product, book, or tool recommendations. Last week, I came across a book that was recommended to me by Audible. Have you ever had one of those books that is a true page-turner? This is that rare exception.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We wrote the first book on the Lean Startup method, The Lean Entrepreneur, and we speak about Lean Innovation and dealing with Uncertainty. 00:12:30 – How to measure and improve the 5 aspects using learning metrics. 00:12:30 – How to measure and improve the 5 aspects using learning metrics.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 20, 2022

Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:30 – Natalie’s history with jazz, and learning how improvisation exists in organisations. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:30 – Natalie’s history with jazz, and learning how improvisation exists in organisations. 00:21:00 – Intuition is about pattern recognition.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

00:10:15 – What is learning velocity? Links mentioned in this episode: Innovation Accounting book: [link]. It is the twin of corporate accounting but instead it is appropriate for innovation projects. 00:07:30 – Why do we need metrics and management for innovation at all? Ground Control: [link].

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 7, 2019

Among the many fascinating findings in his book, Social Physics, he notes, ‘Email has very little to do with productivity or creative output. I have found that the number of opportunities for social learning, usually through informal face-to-face interactions, is the largest single factor in corporate productivity.’

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 20, 2022

Why We Must Learn to Lead with Love. Love is a practice, just as personal care, and meditations, or eating, and learning. That relationship can greatly be enhanced as you learn about other great leaders, and examples of love. That relationship can greatly be enhanced as you learn about other great leaders, and examples of love.

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Idea to Value

JULY 30, 2020

00:05:00 – The aspects which create a successful innovation culture are found nowhere in the accounting books. 00:19:30 – What is learning velocity? 00:05:00 – The aspects which create a successful innovation culture are found nowhere in the accounting books. 00:19:30 – What is learning velocity?

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

However, in his more recent book, The Revenge of Power, Naim points out that autocrats, governments, corporations and other institutions have been able to combine hard power, soft power and networked power to wring back control. Unfortunately, few seem to learn this basic principle of change. If not, it won’t.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2020

I recall enjoying a book published a few years back, “ Innovation Governance- how top management organizes and mobilizes for innovation ”, written by Jean-Philippe Deschamps and Beebe Nelson. I am drawing from this book on some thoughts about innovation leadership. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader?

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Phil McKinney

JULY 2, 2023

As an avid reader, I have delved into countless business and leadership books, each with its own unique perspectives and insights. One book I read when it first came out was "Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs" by John Doerr. Order from Amazon

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