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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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All that’s needed is a 360-degree shift in how you view your business universe. Actually, the process is based on three decades of research conducted by authors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.”

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How Innovation Naturally Emerges From Deliberate Inefficiency

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“The fact is that most companies are structured to maximize efficiency and minimize risk, resulting in an environment that ultimately prevents meaningful innovations,” explains Elliott Parker , author of the new book, The Illusion of Innovation. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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The Smart Nonprofit: Free Book Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has been whirlwind two weeks since our book launched on March 9th. And today, very excited to share a new article we co-authored for the Harvard Business Review on using Smart Tech to make work more human. That’s why we wrote our book. The post The Smart Nonprofit: Free Book Event first appeared on Beth Kanter.

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Six Universal Employee Desires

Eric Jacobsen Blog

According to Bob Rosen , author of the book, Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted In An Uncertain World , there are six universal desires about what employees want from work, regardless of their age: A sense of purpose and meaning. Belief that they are making a contribution. An opportunity to use their skills and talents.

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The Six Universal Desires Of Employees

Eric Jacobsen Blog

According to Bob Rosen , author of the book, Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted In An Uncertain World , there are six universal desires about what employees want from work, regardless of their age: A sense of purpose and meaning. Belief that they are making a contribution. An opportunity to use their skills and talents.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe in the power of books to change the world. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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Learn MBA Skills In 12 Weeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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