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The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed Linda K. Yates Harvard Business Review Press (October 2022) Here’s a “learnable, repeatable, scalable process for disrupting from the inside out” To what does the title of this…
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Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown Harvard Business Review Press (2019) Even the best books about change also need to be revised and updated, and by design In A Fiery…
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It’s not enough to just sell a product or service—companies must truly engage with their customers. How to embed experience design in your organization? Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jennifer Kilian, Hugo Sarrazin, and Hyo…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Neil Gabler for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo: Walt Disney working on a sketch for Laugh-o-Gram,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Neil Smith for Fast Company. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Image credit: Flickr user nevadog * * * Silos are necessary…
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Confronting Capitalism: Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System Philip Kotler AMACOM (2015) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Derek Bok In my opinion, Phil Kotler is the world’s preeminent authority on how to create or increase demand…
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Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic Bill Jensen Net Minds (2013) How-to-Figure-It-All-Out I have read and reviewed all of Bill Jensen’s previously published books and think Disrupt! is his most valuable — thus far — because it will have the widest…
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Brian Klapper is the President and Founding Partner of The Klapper Institute. He is an internationally recognized expert in operational and cultural corporate transformation. Brian has worked with global companies in a variety of sectors including: financial services, consumer products,…
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Crisis Communications: The Definitive Guide to Managing the Message Steven Fink McGraw-Hill (2013) Why you should never “pick a fight with anyone who buys bandwidth by the geobyte” I read and reviewed Steven Fink’s previous book, Crisis Management: Planning for…
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From acorns to oak trees
It is important to keep in mind that all of the Fortune 500 companies began as a start-up. For example: Eli Lilly and Company: A pharmacist and Union officer, Colonel Eli Lilly, started his company with $1,300 in 1876 and…
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