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Innovation and Nanotechnology: Converging Technologies And The End of Intellectual PropertyBy David KoepsellThis book defines 'nanowares' as the ideas and products arising out of nanotechnology. Koepsell argues that these rapidly developing new technologies demand a new approach to scientific discovery and [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity CoachBy Eric MaiselIn his decades of therapeutic practice with artists, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled “writer’s block,” “procrastination,” or “stage fright.” It’s t... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive ObsessionsBy Eric Maisel, Ann MaiselEric Maisel (Coaching the Artist Within), a creativity coach and columnist, and wife Ann Maisel (What Would Your Character Do?) have collaborated on a self-help book with an intriguing twist: that the... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others DieBy Chip Heath, Dan HeathStarred Review. Unabashedly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath—Chip a professor at Stanford's business school, Dan a teacher and textbook publisher—o... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and ChallengersBy Alexamder Osterwalder, Yves PigneurBusiness Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Service Innovation: How to Go from Customer Needs to Breakthrough ServicesBy Lance BettencourtIf there’s one truism about the service sector, it's that businesses don't succeed by inventing a better mousetrap; they succeed by finding the best, most cost-effective way to get rid of their cust... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Robert's Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate SurvivalBy Robert F. BrandsFrom a leader in innovation best practices, 10 practical steps your business must take to achieve profitable growth, through innovation In this timely guide, innovation expert and former CEO Robert... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional OpportunitiesBy Christian Terwiesch, Karl UlrichManagers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists all seek to maximize the financial returns from innovation, and profits are driven largely by the quality of the opportunities they pursue. Based on a [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The One Minute PresenterBy Warwick John FahyIF CAREER SUCCESS is important to you, then apply this global rule: your technical skills no matter how good they are will only take you so far in an organization. Your ability to rise into leadership... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Open Innovation Revolution: Essentials, Roadblocks, and Leadership SkillsBy Stefan LindegaardLife is not exactly a bed of roses for most innovation leaders and intrapreneurs—those assertive, innovative, corporate risk-takers who passionately turn ideas into profitable products. They take on... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Innovation Playbook, + web site: A Revolution in Business ExcellenceBy Nicholas J. WebbIf 84% of top business leaders think innovation is critical to their organization's success, then why do 95% of new products fail in the marketplace and less than 1% of the 2,000 patents issued each w... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and PurposeBy Braden KelleyEvery successful organization began as a nimble, innovative start-up with the ability to course-correct and quickly adapt to the needs of its customers. But along the way, success and growth may have [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Navigating from the Future: A Primer for Sustainable TransformationBy Charles E. SmithThis is a breakthrough leadership book that refreshingly tells the truth and offers actionable strategies for facing today's challenges. Dr. Smith argues that while good ideas, good products, good pro... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Knowledge Integration Dynamics: Developing Strategic Innovation CapabilityBy Mitsuru KodamaSince the 1990s, Japanese firms have sought to expand their capacity for innovation by incorporating Western management practices into their organizational culture. This combination of Japanese and We... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution ChallengeBy Vijay Govindarajan, Chris TrimbleCompanies can’t survive without innovating. But most put far more emphasis on generating Big Ideas than on executing them—turning ideas into actual breakthrough products, services, and process imp... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Global Innovation in Emerging Economies (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology)By Prasada ReddyIn recent decades, there have been significant changes in the way corporate innovation activities are performed. They include changes in the innovation process, flexibility to outsource certain innova... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Business Innovation in the 21st CenturyBy Praveen GuptaThe Business Innovation book, with Foreword by Dipak Jain, Dean, Kellogg School of Management, provides a framework for process of innovation in corporations for introducing new products, services, or... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Boundary Spanning Leadership: Six Practices for Solving Problems, Driving Innovation, and Transforming OrganizationsBy Chris Ernst, Donna Chrobot-MasonThe most effective tools and techniques for managers who need to drive innovation across cultural, organizational, and geographic boundaries. Boundaries exist, whether among cultures or across phys... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Creative Disruption: What you need to do to shake up your business in a digital worldBy Simon WaldmanHow can you survive the ferocious demands of making your business competitive in the digital world? How do you cope with market disruption and challenges? Will your company have the successes of Googl... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian ChallengeBy Adam SegalA contrarian analysis of how the United States can succeed in the technological race with Asia. The emergence of India and China as economic powers has shifted the global landscape and called into que... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |