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How do you tell a real trend from the merely trendy? How, for example, will a technology--like artificial intelligence, machine learning, self-driving cars, biohacking, bots, and the Internet of Things--affect us, our businesses, and workplaces? How will it eventually change the way we live, work, play, and think--and how should we prepare for it now?
In The Signals Are Talking, noted futurist Amy Webb shows us how to analyze the "true signals"--those...
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"The best leaders, in the biggest moments, know how to read the situation, overcome their reflexes, and respond in the best way possible. You can too. The hardest part of leadership is mastering the inevitable high-risk, high-stakes challenges you will face. Whether you're making a split-second decision when your business is hit sideways or finding the best strategy to navigate business-critical long-term circumstances, how can you be at your best...
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Competent companies are good at what they do. But it's when knowledge challenges generally held beliefs and when expertise challenges authority, that companies are put to the test — whether they can learn and change or whether they cannot.
The Competent Company provides a series of insights about professional competence, knowledge and expertise as well as organizational learning, knowledge management and mission delivery.
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As a business leader, you've read dozens of books by the top thought leaders, learning from their research, principles, and tools. Each book dives deep into a specific area of expertise, strategy, execution, cash, people, culture, and leadership. All share powerful concepts on what to do to grow your business. But, how do you efficiently unite these tools into a regimen that works for not just one specific area of your business, but for your entire...
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A guide to the adhocracy form of business management and how it can foster a company's success.
The leading companies of the past twenty years have all harnessed the power of information to gain competitive advantage. But as access to big data becomes ubiquitous, it can no longer guarantee a leg up. Fast/Forward makes the case that we are entering a new era in which firms that understand the limits of 1s and 0s will take the lead.
Whereas the...
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Over and over, we see big legacy businesses getting beaten to the punch by energetic little start-ups. It seems like innovation can come from only the bottom up or from the outside in. But tech experts Vivek Wadwha and Ismail Amla are here to tell you that "big equals slow and stodgy" is a myth. Based on decades of experience working with both the world's leading brands and disruptive start-ups, this book explores the opportunity legacy companies...
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If you're aiming to innovate, failure along the way is a given. But can you fail better?
Whether you're rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better, faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful.
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Innovation requires more than a eureka moment. The vast majority of new product ideas never make it to market. Typically, this is because of the failure to address a real problem that a customer has experienced and is willing to pay to have solved. What do people and businesses need to know about the realities of innovating in order to develop products successfully?
Lorraine Marchand, a seasoned practitioner who has guided Fortune 500 companies and...
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You have a great idea, now what?
That first mile-where an innovation moves from an idea on paper to the market-is often plagued by failure. In fact, less than one percent of ideas launched by big companies end up having real impact. The ideas aren't the problem. It's the process.
The First Mile focuses on the critical moment when an innovator moves from planning to reality. It is a perilous place where hidden traps snare entrepreneurs and roadblocks...
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Becoming a Creative Genius {Again} makes the case that we are all born creative and entrepreneurial geniuses, then shows you how to become the most creatively entrepreneurial version of yourself you can be. And is there a part of your life that won't improve when that happens? Those attending Nordgren's workshops comment that his content prepares them to get the most out of: Agile software development, Design thinking, Lean start-up methodology,...
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This book wants to promote the art of working with ideas and inspire organizations to find new and better ways of becoming more creative and better manage innovation.
The front of innovation is fuzzy. It's right there where fuzzy - but potentially great - ideas thrive.
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Have you ever wondered the reason most projects fail? This book will transform your whole perspective about process mapping and you will be able to understand the critical role that processes make in shaping corporate strategy, project delivery success, how they contribute to profitability and sustaining high performance in organizations.
Those individuals specifically working on process projects or programs in corporate strategy, director level,...
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Myriad crises can affect your business-from natural disasters to human-caused ones, like product sabotage, lawsuits, a pandemic or other health crisis, or terrorism. Your business' survival and successful recovery depends on your continuity plan.
Changes are that your business will face at least one disruptive or potentially crippling event in the near future. Will you be able to avert it? If not, will your business survive?
Through this book's...
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Today, competition seems to be everywhere. At the same time, successful companies need to find effective ways to both collaborate and compete. In fact, a competitive company most likely is also one that collaborates well and is able to form productive partnerships.
The Competitive Company provides a review of those organizational capabilities that primarily contribute to a company's competitive capacity and inspires organizations to think about their...
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William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches with what modern neuroscience tells us about how creative ideas form in the human mind. In his new book, Creative Strategy, Duggan offers a step-by-step guide to help you and your company put that same method to work for your own innovations. Duggan's book solves the most important problem of how innovation actually...
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The health and economic devastation caused by COVID-19 has revealed that most countries' national health systems are inadequate to cope with pandemics. These are global challenges that call for global responses. At the heart of this book is a bold new proposal to create a global pandemic playbook that can be quickly, deployed, when the next pandemic strikes. Countries and their experts must collaborate to create early warning systems, preparedness,...
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COVID-19 has demonstrated clearly that businesses, nonprofits, individuals, and governments are terrible at dealing effectively with large-scale disasters that take the form of slow-moving train-wrecks. Using cutting-edge research in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral economics on dangerous judgement errors (cognitive biases), this book first explains why we respond so poorly to slow-moving, high-impact, and long-term crises. Next, the book shares...
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Este libro forma parte de una colección sobre management que se caracteriza por organizar los contenidos temáticos en módulos. Un módulo es una unidad más bien pequeña, en general de una a tres páginas, correspondiente a un concepto fundamental, un modelo, una herramienta de análisis, una guía de acción o bien una combinación de estos elementos. En cada módulo hay un gráfico representativo del tema que agrega una comprensión visual del...
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Conventional wisdom today says that to survive, companies must move beyond incremental, sustaining innovation and invest in some form of radical innovation. "Disrupt yourself or be disrupted!" is the relentless message company leaders hear. The Power of Little Ideas argues there's a "third way" that is neither sustaining nor disruptive. This low-risk, high-reward strategy is an approach to innovation that all company leaders should understand so that...
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