Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

Many of this year’s business books recognize culture’s role as the essential driver of effective change. By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. The reissue of his classic book is cause for celebration.

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Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 260

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

And finally, business model innovation is getting the recognition it deserves. That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. For many, this is frightening.

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Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. She has authored four books on the topic and numerous research papers. Human Resources'

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Film Human Resources Technology Maturity 150

Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

There is a constant emergence of many tools to facilitate functions like accounting, branding, marketing, etc. The other side offers raging competition as the internet opens up the market to international players through innovation and technology that is hard to keep up with. Always Play by the Book. Cloud Technology.

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Supply Chain Directory Trends Entrepreneur 81

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2012

HERE’S YOUR LESSON: You can invest in some marketing program to reach new people – or you can invest in giving your existing customers the best service possible, and let THEM find new people for you. PREDICTION: I’ll bet the investment in existing customer experience is one-tenth the cost of any marketing program.

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Loyalty Marketing Customer Loyalty ROI 50

Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

After I left Kodak, as a marketing specialist, to take a new leadership position in another industry in 1973, Fujifilm's technology was catching up with Kodak's and by the 1980s Fujifilm had technically surpassed Kodak in nearly all varieties of film. The photographic film market shrank at the rate of twenty to thirty percent a year.

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Film Crisis Innovation Brand 70

Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Between 2000 and 2012, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers yet in that same time frame, over 10 million working proprietors entered the marketplace. Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5

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Bottom-up Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Software 104

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Perhaps that’s why listening, questioning, and moving others to act emerged as strong themes in the best business books offering managerial self-help this year, with the latest volumes from veteran authors Edgar H. Simple and profoundly wise, Humble Inquiry , the best business book of the year in this category, has the makings of a classic.

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Schein Leadership Teamwork Self-aware 248

Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s clear that in many cases, women are not just influencing the market; they are the market. In other words, women have been the market for some time now yet many executives have not taken action on this huge opportunity. In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. The New Hard Trends.

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Power Cooper Diversity CEO 248

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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Blog Creativity Review Innovation 89

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Two of the five, Vala Afshar and Brad Martin , have just written a 2012 & 2013’s Must Read book, The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence. To understand the power of this book, I need to tell you a story…of how I met them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Bottom-up Technology 150

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. That is what this book is about. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” New Skills Required. 7 Steps to Problem Solving.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 82

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Some commentators felt the move to New Coke was a marketing gimmick to regenerate interest and sales in the brand after sales erosion due to the “Pepsi Challenge” taste test campaign. The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. Classic Coke sales rebounded.

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Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 73

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In his book New Rules, John Kotter notes that from 1974 through 1994, Harvard Business School graduates who worked for smaller corporations tended to make more money and have higher job satisfaction than their counterparts in large corporations. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Jeroen De Flander helps you to improve your strategy execution skills in his new book, The Execution Shortcut. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. Always take credit for the work your team did.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 76

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Change is innovative. Here are some recent celebrations that drew acclaim and participation: Rice University, 100th in 2012. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2012

What are you doing to innovate it? They don’t have to talk about their competition – Apple is the innovator. OUCH QUESTION: Is your brand, product, or service market superior, and you haven’t elevated yourself to that position? CAUTION: Leave PR, marketing, and advertising out of the equation, or you may NEVER get to the truth.

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Brand Reputation Customer Loyalty Industry 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

All I had to do was look at the path of technological innovation and make a reasonable guess. Within the next 20 years there will be millions of brilliant, highly educated knowledge workers flooding the global job market. The United States has a history of continued innovation and flexibility that few countries can match.

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Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Both men had recognized that global markets were opening and posed a risk to the company. I would rediscover this when I joined the leadership team of The Grappone Automotive Group in 2012.

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Leadership Automotive System Motivation 98

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2012

Or should I say ‘book replacement’ day. Capitalizing on the growing demand for e-books, the exploding app market, e-reader popularity, and the global appetite for cool products,Apple went to market having no idea what an explosion of creativity they were unleashing. Take products to market? Communicate?

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Download Customer Loyalty Marketing Seminar 50

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The removal of trade barriers leads to an increasingly efficient market. People worldwide are buying the same global brands that are globally advertised, marketed, and distributed. Long-term value is the result of vision, creativity, innovation, and hard work. Yet few of these activities produce any long-term value.

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Diversity Short-term Long-term Globalization 101

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

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Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2012

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES! Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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White Paper Reputation Customer Loyalty Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Still skeptical?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. Plenty of management books describe patent litigation in such a narrow way: you file a suit to recover damages from someone who is copying you. Probably way more than Apple’s lawyer bills.

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Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation.

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Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Oren Teicher, the ABA’s executive director, told book publishing daily digest Shelf Awareness , “It appears that Amazon.com has again fashioned a program that benefits the retailer it cares about most — that is, Amazon.” Few independent booksellers can match Amazon’s discounted book prices. of publisher revenues in 2012.

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eBook Retail Discount Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

What’s really significant, though, is that by buying WhatsApp, Facebook has signaled its intention of taking on Tencent, China’s biggest Internet company, which is trying to become the global leader in the instant messaging market. Tencent enjoys the advantages of a giant social network as well as a history of innovation.

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Norton Globalization Price Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Just look at Kodak in the past few months leading up to leap year 2012. But the Kodak ship ultimately drifted so far away from a changing market that no leap year could save it. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift).

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Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. How Jobs figured out the puzzle at the core of his favorite business book. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. by Dorie Clark. by James Allworth.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8