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(3 of 7) Cash, Cash Traps and the Cash Curve by Rebecca
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(from James Andrew, author of Payback) It’s all about the cash. And the only role of innovation, ultimately, is to generate cash. The problem with many innovation projects is that they quickly become cash traps.
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(2 of 7) Payback: Making Innovation Pay Off by Rebecca
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(from James Andrew, author of Payback) Payback is the result of a simple insight – we saw that innovation matters to leaders, and we saw that it isn’t working. It isn’t working because leaders don’t recognize innovation for what it is – the process of transforming knowledge into profitable growth. They romanticize it, fall in love with ideas, and think that the critical test of innovation is whether they’re generating enough of “big” ideas.
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(1 of 7) Glad to Be Here... and Thanks to Jack and Todd
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Welcome to a day of blogging with James Andrew, co-author of Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation! Glad to Be Here… and Thanks to Jack and Todd First off, I want to thank Jack and Todd for inviting me to the blog-fest here at 800-CEO-Read. I spend my days taking a hard look at innovation – my Boston Consulting Group colleague Hal Sirkin and I wrote Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation to blow up innovation myths and help leaders innovate in ways that really drive their business.
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links for 2007-06-12 by 800-CEO-READ
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links for 2007-06-12 by 800-CEO-READ Unstoppable >> BusinessWeek | Know When To Shift Gears "What more could the man possibly have to say about exploiting your main assets? Quite a lot, it turns out. .
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2007 Quill Nominees
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2007 Quill Nominees by Kate At BEA, the 2007 Quill Award nominees were announced. What titles were eligible? Eligible titles for the 2007 Quill Awards were those published between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007.
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What Publishers Are Saying Readers Want
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What Publishers Are Saying Readers Want by Todd S. It is always interesting to hear what publishers think readers are looking for. Publishers Weekly runs a feature each year on the trends in business books.
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links for 2007-06-08 by 800-CEO-READ
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links for 2007-06-08 by 800-CEO-READ A Culture of Improvement>>The Wall Street Journal | The March of the Machines Key inventions were often "preceded by similar machines that incorporated most if not all of the principles of the famous devices," he writes. "Too often the existence of a key patent or the success of a manufacturing enterprise has diverted attention fro (tags: businessbooks technology) Crazy Bosses >> Fortune | Employees Are Crazy Too Bosses aren't the only looneys in the workplace. Fortune's Stanley Bing outlines six things employees do that drive their employers nuts.
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We're back from BEA
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Last week 30,000 booksellers flooded New York City's Javits Center to attend the annual Book Convention (known to insiders as BEA). This is where people wait in endless lines for an autograph, where people compare their tradeshow loot like Halloween candy (in this case, advance copies of books), and where Stephen Colbert, Rosie O'Donnell, LL Cool J and Khalid Hosseini can be seen under one roof. With 90-degree New York heat and a temperamental air conditioner, booksellers struggled to stay cool.
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ChangeThis: Top 10 Downloads for May 2007
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A new batch of ChangeThis manifestos will be up this week, but in case you missed these popular manifestos, here's your chance to check in with what our readers are reading. Growing Great New Managers by Erika Andersen 10 Unwealthy Habits - Alicia Castillo Manifesto to Accelerate: 15 Truths by Dan Coughlin What Must Starbucks Do? by John Moore 100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down by Michael Iva Few and Far Between: Black Swans and the Impossibility of Prediction by Nassim Nicholas Taleb How To Be Creative by Hugh MacLeod The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin Managers Ignite!
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We are leaving town.
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The whole blogging crew is heading to New York City today. Book Expo America, the annual booksellers convention, is taking place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If we see or hear something interesting, we will drop a post here.
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