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By Melinda Blau and Karen L. Fingerman, W.W. Norton (2009). While this book builds on the established notion of weak ties being valuable information sources, it also offers a handful of insights into how those weak ties work in innovation. It starts with...
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By: Charles S. Jacobs, Portfolio, 2009. Take everything you think you know about management and throw it out the window. According to Jacobs, the latest brain science proves that people simply don’t work the way we’ve been taught: incentives and threats...
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By: Robert Brunner and Stewart Emory, FT Press (2009). If you know anyone in love with an iPhone, you may understand the feelings that Brunner and Emery describe. According to them, this fierce devotion extends past the product to the company, and enables...
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By: Joshua Ramo: Little, Brown, 2009. While it’s not strictly a business book, this is the best book for business that I’ve reviewed this year. It is, in fact, a whole new way of facing the future of any endeavor: Ramo suggests that the only way to deal...
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By: Joseph T. Hallinan; Broadway Books, 2009 Aside from having the cleverest (and most frustrating) cover in the history of publishing, Hallinan’s new book on the neuroscience of decision-making tells us a lot about why innovation is so hard to accomplish...
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Abstract: In a series of articles BusinessWeek explores innovative and pragmatic ways to maintain customer service in these uncertain times. Published: March 9, 2009 Link: BusinessWeek
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Abstract: How we built a world-class organic growth engine by investing in people. Published: Autumn 2008 Authors: A.G. Lafley with Ram Charan Link: strategy+business
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Abstract: P&G is using "design thinking" to tackle difficult business problems. While this may seem like the latest innovation buzzword, P&G is using the technique to generate effective ideas and, more importantly, change its culture...
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Abstract: Cutting concrete blocks can slow down a construction project, as workers haul heavy blocks to and from the one or two saws on work sites that are powerful enough to cut masonry. One contractor built his own lightweight-portable masonry saw for...
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Abstract: "Embarking on a new product or service should be easy with the resources of an established company at your disposal, right? Not necessarily. If you’re launching a start-up within a bigger company, you’ll have a host of issues to overcome...
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Abstract: “The authors suggest ways large companies can capitalize on opportunities that normally would not fit in with their processes or values. They explore a model for determining which organizational resources, structures, processes, and values are...
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