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Summary: Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are only beginnings. Indeed, even a company with the world's best idea still faces a devilish challenge: it must build the business of tomorrow without endangering the business of today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 GOVChristensen, Clayton M.
Summary: "The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller-now updated with a fresh new package-innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right-yet still lose market leadership....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Bahcall, Safi
Summary: "'Loonshots is a brilliant and wonderfully entertaining book, an unstoppable read, full of surprises and rich with insight into how people create and nurture things that change the world. It's also an important book. Bahcall, a physicist and biotech entrepreneur, is unfolding the secrets behind successes everywhere.' --Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees What do James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 BAHKerr, Iain
Summary: "Innovating Emergent Futures lays out a ground-breaking radically new method for innovation, invention, design, and creativity. Prototyped globally over the last decade, and built on 20+ years of cutting-edge field research, testing, and development--it has been used to transformatively engage the most vexing challenges of the 21st century, develop alternative business models, and new fields of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emergent Futures Lab Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 KERHartmann, Thom
Summary: Most people do not “grow out” of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For many, their ADHD traits have led to difficulties in school, relationships, and work. But for our hunter-gatherer ancestors these characteristics were necessary for survival. Hunters must be easily distractible, constantly scanning their environment, and unafraid of taking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Street Press 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1: The creative person: practice and passion -- Lateral thinking is a survival skill -- Creative styles: adaptors and innovators -- Combining opposites: diverge, then converge -- Principles for unleashing your imagination -- Principles for converging on the best ideas -- disc 2: Stages of the creative process, and you -- Clarifying the challenge -- Clarify even more: webbing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2014
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 CRECall number: DVD 153 CRE
Heffernan, Margaret
Summary: "Competition has run amok. Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest, is crudely understood as justifying a winner-takes-all culture. If you want get into the best school, land the right job, buy the cool dress, find the perfect partner, be made for life, you have tread underfoot any and all your rivals. Competition has become a simplistic zero-sum game, played without any enjoyment at all. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.046 HEFSisson, Natalie
Summary: "After eight years of working in the soul-crushing bureaucracy of the corporate world, Natalie Sisson quit her high-paying job and moved to Canada, started a blog, and cofounded a technology company. In just eighteen months she learned how to build an online platform from scratch, and then left to start her own business--which involved visiting Argentina to eat empanadas, play Ultimate Frisbee,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Star Way 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Varol, Ozan O.
Summary: "We're experiencing a second age of spaceflight, and the renaissance of rocket science is captivating the world. Movies and television shows set in this sphere consistently top the charts, and millions tune in to watch SpaceX launches. Although we glamorize rocket science, we assume that it's beyond comprehension by mere mortals who don't have a special kind of genius baked into their DNA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 VARThomke, Stefan H
Summary: "When it comes to innovation, relying on intuition won't cut it anymore. Whether it's improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. This is especially true in the online world, where predicting customer behavior is virtually impossible. Managers can, however, discover whether a new product,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 THOGuber, Peter.
Summary: Draws on hundreds of interviews with business and entertainment leaders as well as prominent intellectuals to reveal how to use purposeful storytelling skills to promote professional success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 GUBTrump, Donald
Summary: Two entrepreneurial icons share experiences and insights into creating and building successful businesses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plata Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.42 TRUGrant, Adam M.
Summary: ""Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world." --Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outliers and The Tipping Point "Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153.3 GRABushnell, Nolan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4063 BUSMootee, Idris.
Summary: A comprehensive playbook for applied design thinking in business and management, complete with concepts and toolkits As many companies have lost confidence in the traditional ways of running a business, design thinking has entered the mix. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation presents a framework for design thinking that is relevant to business management, marketing, and design strategies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MOOMichalko, Michael
Contents: Original spin -- Mind pumping -- Challenges -- Thinkertoys -- False faces (reversal) -- Slice and dice (attribute listing) -- Cherry split (fractionation) -- Think bubbles (mind mapping) -- Scamper (questions) -- Tug-of-war (force-field analysis) -- Idea box (morphological analysis) -- Idea grid (FCB grid) -- Lotus blossom (diagramming) -- Phoenix (questions) -- The Great Transpacific Airline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business MichalkoCatmull, Edwin E.
Summary: "In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize the industry, gross $360 million, and establish Pixar as one of the most successful, innovative, and emulated companies on earth. This book details how Catmull built an enduring creative culture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 CATDeutsch, Donny.
Summary: Donny Deutsch's hit CNBC show The Big Idea has put the spotlight on those ordinary moments when people have the courage and stamina to make their dreams come true. In his book, Deutsch draws not only on his own tremendous focus and expertise, but on that of dozens of the successful entrepreneurs whom he has interviewed, to help you create your own enterprise. From the "Gut Check Moment" to "Mom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 DEUCorbin, David M.
Contents: Face it -- Trouble -- Taking off -- First impressions -- Embracing the message -- Follow it -- Seeing the light -- Spreading the word -- Darkness -- Step by step -- Communicating -- Fix it -- Reconnecting -- Progress -- On a personal note -- Positive effects -- Hope -- Sweet successes -- Finding answers -- Surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 CORCatmull, Edwin E.
Summary: "In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize the industry, gross $360 million, and establish Pixar as one of the most successful, innovative, and emulated companies on earth. This book details how Catmull built an enduring creative culture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 658.4 CATJarvis, Jeff
Summary: A manual for survival and success that asks the most important question today's leaders, in any industry, can ask themselves: What would Google do? To demonstrate how to emulate Google, Jarvis lays out his laws of what he calls "the new Google century," including such insights as: Think distributed; Become a platform; Join the post-scarcity, open-source, gift economy; The middleman has died;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Business 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 JARKieves, Tama J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 KIESims, Steve
Summary: "The man who created Bluefish, the internationally famous company that makes once in a lifetime events happen for the rich and famous reveals to the rest of us his trade secrets for making things happen.The core of his philosophy focuses on simple, yet effective ways to sharpen the mind and gain practical skills that can help you learn a new perspective and accomplish anything. Whether it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Star Way 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 SIMBryan, Mark A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1998