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The Innovation Ultimatum: Six strategic technologies that will reshape every business in the 2020s Steve Brown Wiley (February 2020) These technologies can be your best friends or worst enemies. That’s up to you. I agree with Steve Brown that the…
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Game-Time Decision Making: High-Scoring Business Strategies from the Biggest Names in Sports David Meltzer McGraw-Hill (October 2019) How and why you have to get out of your own way in order to get wherever you want to go There are…
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Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers Jo Boaler HarperOne/An imprint of HarperCollins(September 2019) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Ford’s observation suggests that most human limitations are self-imposed. Jo Boaler…
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Before there were vehicles and garages, there were sheds…and no doubt before them there were caves in which primal innovations such as fire, wheels, and spears were envisioned. One of the most famous modern locations was in Småland in southern…
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In Smartcuts, Shane Snow explains thde breakghrough power of lateral thinking: how and why it usually (not always) answers questions and solves problems faster and better than can any other thought process. The concept of thinking outside of a box…
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HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) If you don’t care about your personal and professional growth, why should anyone else? As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR…
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In The Formula, Albert László Barabási explains why people succeed or fail. He focuses on five “laws” and devotes a separate chapter to each. I have presumed to add what seems to me to be an appropriate observation. 1. Performance…
Read MoreType R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World Ama Marston and Stephanie Marston PublicAffairs (January 2018) How and why “we must meet change head-on [and] use stress and adversity to open the door to new opportunities” Ama Marston…
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Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill Napoleon Hill with Jeffrey Gitomer Amazon Publishing (October 2018) Timeless but timely advice for personal growth and professional development Henry Ford once observed, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t,…
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The nature and significance of self-efficacy in breakthrough innovation
In Quirky, Melissa A. Schilling focuses on eight “breakthrough innovators”: Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs. While doing so, she draws upon an abundance of recent research. However different…
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