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So how do we move the future from the distant horizon to the present day? We need Intellectual Anarchy.
The accelerating challenges facing our planet-such as climate change, food scarcity, sustainable energy, overpopulation, nuclear proliferation, income inequality, and rising healthcare costs-are solvable. The question is not if, but when.
All these challenges directly, impact our lives and our unwritten future. They have enormous economic consequences...
362) Mind Mapping: Improve Memory, Learning, Concentration, Organization, Creativity, and Time Management
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This is a comprehensive guide to learning about a wonderful technique called mind maps.
Mind maps are an amazing organizational and creativity tool that can improve memory, concentration, communication, organization, creativity, and time management.
This book is the ultimate resource on the topic of mind maps. In a short time, it can enhance your skills in reading, writing, learning, note taking, brainstorming, planning, productivity, and so much...
363) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Talent (with bonus article "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy" by D
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Invest in your most valuable resource: your people.
Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful and expensive. You need to take steps to ensure that you attract, develop, and retain your best people.
If you read nothing else on managing talent in your organization, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you boost the...
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Every company faces challenges, but some are able to achieve long-term vitality while others flame out. What distinguishes a healthy, high-performing organization? Which ingredients, decisions, and values result in a business that is built for the long haul?
Profitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael...
365) How to Get Ideas
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This new expanded second edition shows you-no matter your age or skill, your job or training-how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier.
Jack Foster's simple five-step technique for solving problems and getting ideas takes the mystery and anxiety out of the idea-generating process. It's a proven process that works. You'll learn to condition your mind to become "idea-prone," utilize your sense of humor, develop your curiosity, visualize your...
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Managing a servitization strategy is a tough managerial challenge due to the delicate and high business implications. What do you need to know to achieve the outcomes the company wants? A reliable, practical, and effective instrument and a relevant dynamic managerial capability for motivation and adoption decision. This is the value proposition of “Servitization: Assessment Protocol for Action”.
Servitization is about adding service value to the...
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"Alex Speier spins a compelling narrative about how great scouting and player development created a perennial contender in baseball's toughest division, without losing sight of the people at the heart of his story." - Keith Law
The captivating inside story of the historic 2018 Boston Red Sox, as told through the assembly and ascendancy of their talented young core-the culmination of nearly a decade of reporting from one of the most respected baseball...
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Why are group decisions so hard?
Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups-first in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person to help decide is good because the group benefits from the collective knowledge of all of its members, and this results in better decisions. Right?
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Since the 1990s, a transformation has occurred within the role of human resources departments. HR professionals are being called upon to help determine priorities in running the business, craft organizational development strategies, and shape the culture within their company. From the renowned OD practitioner, the American Management Association, this forward-thinking book introduces readers to core organization development strategies and skills--providing...
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The must-read summary of Tim Berry's book: "The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan".
This complete summary of the ideas from Tim Berry's book "The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan" demonstrates how the formal business plan is no longer used in today's business world. That is why you need a plan that will grow and evolve with your business. In his book, the author explains how your business will benefit from a simple business plan that you can plan as you go....
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The must-read summary of Joel Schuman's book: "Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller: A New Growth Model for Corporate America".
This complete summary of the ideas from Joel Schuman's book "Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller" shows how today's companies need a smarter way to grow. It is no longer useful to focus on major investments or acquisitions - the best place to look for future growth is actually in small entrepreneurial initiatives and ideas which...
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The must-read summary of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton's book: "Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies".
This complete summary of the ideas from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton's book "Alignment" shows that most organisations consist of multiple departments and operating units which are run by highly trained individuals. Whilst each unit operates consistently and efficiently, the collaboration between units...
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The must-read summary of Theodore Modis' book: "Conquering Uncertainty: Understanding Corporate Cycles and Positioning Your Company to Survive the Changing Environment"
This complete summary of the ideas from Theodore Modis' book "Conquering Uncertainty" shows that anticipating the future of a business and taking suitable action, particularly during times of rapidly changing competitive business conditions, can be challenging. However, business changes...
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The must-read summary of James Citrin's book: "Zoom: How 12 Exceptional Companies Are Navigating the Road to the Next Economy".
This complete summary of the ideas from James Citrin's book "Zoom" shows that in order to succeed and excel in the emerging economy, business leaders need to master six basic strategies. In his book, the author explores each of these strategies and defines ways in which companies can learn to apply this strategy in their...
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The must-read summary of Lawrence Hrebiniak's book: "Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change".
This complete summary of the ideas from Lawrence Hrebiniak's book "Making Strategy Work" shows how the strategies that fail often do so not because the ideas are bad, but because the implementation is bad. To get an organisation to put a chosen strategy into place successfully, a unified and integrated approach to execution is required....
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This complete summary of the ideas from Quint Studer's book "Results that Last" investigates what generates genuinely exceptional results. The usual list of suspects really doesn't make sense: firstly, outstanding products or services are helpful but competitors can and do clone these easily; secondly, employees may be good, even very good, but people leave organisations every day; thirdly, individual leaders also come and go. In his book, the author...
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The must-read summary of Mark W. Johnson's book: "Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal".
This complete summary of the ideas from Mark W. Johnson's book "Seizing the White Space" shows that businesses that are successful in the long term are adept at negotiating "white space" - the area outside of their current competencies and core activity. In his book, the author explains that every business can expand into...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Michael Silverstein and Neil Fiske's book "Trading Up" shows that the tastes and preferences of American middle-market consumers are changing. More and more, they are becoming willing to "trade up" in some areas — to pay a premium price for products and services that provide a greater level of quality than typical mass market offerings. As a result, a new concept is emerging in the marketplace: "New-Luxury"....
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This complete summary of the ideas from Michael Port's book "Beyond Booked Solid" shows that you have to reach the stage where you are "booked solid" — where you're getting as much work as you can handle by yourself. Once you reach that stage, a new challenge arises. You now have to grow and develop your business so, instead of being a small operation which takes all your time and energy, it becomes a bigger and better business which pays you more...
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Super Strategist: The Art and Science of Modern Account Planning is the only modern guide to advertising's arguably most vital discipline, that has been written with the passion of someone who's found their calling and the wisdom of an industry veteran who is still actively leading strategy in a large, modern, full-service agency. Super Strategist is full of practical advice for newcomers and usable strategies and insights for experienced planners,...
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