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In Door to Door, Edward Humes explores “the magnificent, maddening, mysterious world of transportation.” Many of those who read the book will be surprised by what he has to say about various myths and whether or not each is true.…
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In Play Bigger (HarperBusiness, June 2016), Al Ramadan, Dave Petterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney explain how and why “pirates, dreamers, and innovators create and dominate markets.” Category design is one of the key concepts that they examine. What is it?…
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In The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Michael J. Mauboussin rigorously examines a common mistake when making predictions: failing to recognize luck’s existence or miscalculating its influence, “and as a consequence we dwell too…
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In People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: Changing the Way You Attract, Acquire, Develop, and Retain Talent, Jean Paul Isson and Jesse S. Harriott suggest six questions that should be asked in order to develop the most effective…
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Here is an excerpt from a mini-commentary featured at the BOA/Merrill Lynch website. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Women’s growing clout—as entrepreneurs, executives and consumers—is changing how companies do business and spurring economic growth…
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2. What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? 3. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “Do all of you want a drink?” The first logician says “I don’t know.” The second…
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In The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth, Chris Zook and James Allen identify and discuss three predictable crises that can result from growth. Each of the three occurs at a different phase of an organization’s…
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In Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government, William Eggers recommends and explains nine strategies that will help decision-makers in governmental entities that need to attract, hire, train, and then retain the talent they need to compete…
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Myths and Misconceptions about Innovation
In Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price , Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke assert: “The most successful product innovators we know start by determining what the customer values [verb] and what they are willing to…
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