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Awake at the Wheel
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| Mitch Ditkoff |
| Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Ideas Rolling in an Uphill World by Mitch Ditkoff is a highly engaging business fable, well told. This entertaining story teaches the reader about the nature of big ideas, what to do when you have one, the resistance you’re likely to encounter when you try to convince others of its value, and how to overcome this hurdle and bring your idea to life. |
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The Future of Management
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| Gary Hamel and Bill Breen |
| Hamel, a well-known business thinker and author (Leading the Revolution), advocates that dogma be rooted out and a new future be imagined and invented. To aid managers and leaders on this mission, Hamel offers case studies and measured analysis of management innovators like Google and W.L. Gore (makers of Gore-Tex), then lists lessons that can be drawn from them. |
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A Whole New Mind
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| Daniel Pink |
| Just as information workers surpassed physical laborers in economic importance, Pink claims, the workplace terrain is changing yet again, and power will inevitably shift to people who possess strong right brain qualities. |
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Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
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| Clayton Christensen |
| When a disruptive innovation is launched, it changes the entire industry and every firm operating within in it. This book argues that it is possible to predict which companies will win and which will lose in a specific situation — and provides a practical framework for doing so. |
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Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape
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| Henry Chesbrough |
| In Open Business Models, Chesbrough explains how to make money in an open innovation landscape. He provides a diagnostic instrument enabling you to assess your company’s current business model, and explains how to overcome common barriers to creating a more open model. He also offers compelling examples of companies that have developed such models—including Procter & Gamble, IBM, and Air Products. |
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The Myths of Innovation
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| Scott Berkun |
| In The Myths of Innovation, bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at innovation history, including the software and Internet Age, to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations-truths that people can apply to today's challenges. Using dozens of examples from the history of technology, business, and the arts, you'll learn how to convert the knowledge you have into ideas that can change the world. |
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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
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| Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor |
| This groundbreaking book reveals that innovation is not as unpredictable as most managers have come to believe. While the outcomes of past innovations seem random, the process by which innovations are packaged and shaped within companies is very predictable. By understanding and managing the forces that influence this process, companies can shape high-octane business plans that create truly disruptive growth. Drawing on years of in-depth research and using new theories tested in hundreds of companies across many industries, the authors identify the processes that create successful innovations, and show managers how to tailor their strategies to the changing circumstances of a dynamic world. (Available September 2003) |
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Driving Growth Through Innovation
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| Robert B. Tucker |
| Business managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth. Greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Robert B. Tucker provides a practical step-by-step method any business can use to identify opportunities and encourage innovations that capitalize on them. |
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