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Audio-Tech allows executives to keep up with all the latest business theories, ideas, and concepts from the best and most important business books written each year. Every month, our book summary editors take two current business titles and condense them down to the essentials; delivering them to business leaders as 45-minute audio book summaries (CDs or MP3s) + free online access to the PDF digital transcript of the audio. Meaning each month, top executives get crucial business information from two top business titles in a 90-minute summary format.
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Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage
Adam Richardson
Today, more than ever, innovation is at the heart of business success. Yet, all too many innovations get stalled, squashed, sidetracked, or warped beyond recognition by byzantine organizational processes and decision-making edifices.
Some companies have attempted to deal with these internal roadblocks by sequestering specialized innovation teams away in exotically decorated cubicle-less offices, or by sending employees to seminars on thinking outside-of-the-box.
And yet, one recent study revealed that executives still give odds of worse than a coin-toss as to whether innovations developed with formal processes will have the desired market impacts.
Clearly, innovation is broken. But innovation is not the problem. The problem is...
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Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary
Joel Kurtzman
What is leadership? How do leaders develop? And how does one become an effective leader? Tens of thousands of books, articles, studies, and theories have focused on the topic of leadership, with thousands more arriving each year. Yet, despite all this research, there is still no consensus about the answers to these questions.
In our summary of Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary, Joel Kurtzman offers new insights on how to approach a leadership mindset, as well as how to implement it, by establishing an inspiring goal that motivates people to perform at their best.
Kurtzman is chairman of the Kurtzman Group, a research and consulting firm focusing on issues relating to knowledge management, strategy, economic development, global risk, and thought leadership. He is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute and at Wharton’s SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management. He is also an advisor to the World Economic Forum and to the U.S. Council on Competitiveness.
In the following summary, Kurtzman sheds light on the meaning...
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