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  • Complete summary of Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson's book: "Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business".This summary of the ideas from Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson's book "Make Your Own Luck" explains how "predictive intelligence" is your ability to act in the face of uncertainty to make your own luck and destiny. In their...
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  • The must-read summary of Bill Gates' book: "The Road Ahead: How the Emerging Technologies of the Digital Age Will Transform Everyone's Lives".This complete summary of the ideas from Bill Gates' book "The Road Ahead" explains how the emerging technologies of the information highway have the ability to transform the life of every person on the planet. In his book, the...
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  • The must-read summary of Clayton Christensen, Scott Anthony and Erik Roth's book: "Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change".This complete summary of the ideas from Clayton Christensen, Scott Anthony and Erik Roth's book "Seeing What's Next" shows that successful businessmen, investors and entrepreneurs all share one trait: they have the ability to predict industry change...
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  • The must-read summary of Daniel Burrus and John David Mann's book: "Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible".This complete summary of the ideas from Daniel Burrus and John David Mann's book "Flash Foresight" explains how a flash foresight is a "blinding flash of the future obvious". It is the ability to intuitively grasp what will unfold...
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  • The must-read summary of Daniel Nissanoff's book: "Futureshop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell and Get the Things We Really Want".This complete summary of the ideas from Daniel Nissanoff's book "Futureshop" presents a ground-breaking observation on the way our society is changing its 'accumulation' mindset and becoming an 'auction culture'. According to the author,...
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  • The must-read summary of Ed Keller and Jon Berry's book: "The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy".This complete summary of the ideas from Ed Keller and Jon Berry's book "The Influentials" shows that, for most people, the first step in the buying process is to ask someone...
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  • The must-read summary of Faith Popcorn's book: "The Popcorn Report: The Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life".This complete summary of the ideas from Faith Popcorn's book "The Popcorn Report" shows that for anyone in business, the future is a serious issue. Business success requires that you constantly evolve towards meeting the requirements of the future. In this book,...
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  • The must-read summary of Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson and Tom Kippola's book: "The Gorilla Game: An Investor's Guide to Picking Winners in High Technology".This complete summary of the ideas from Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson and Tom Kippola's book "The Gorilla Game" shows how the real challenge in business is how to identify the potential star performers of tomorrow before their...
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  • The must-read summary of Jack Uldrich and Deb Newberry's book: "The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: Nanotechnology and the Future of Big Business".This complete summary of the ideas from Jack Uldrich and Deb Newberry's book "The Next Big Thing Is Really Small" explains that nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at the atomic level to create better materials, devices...
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  • The must-read summary of Joel Barker and Scott Erikson's book: "Five Regions of the Future: Preparing Your Business for Tomorrow's Technology Revolution".This complete summary of the ideas from Joel Barker and Scott Erikson's book "Five Regions of the Future" shows that new technology falls into one of five well-defined regions. In their book, the authors explain how you can make...
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  • The must-read summary of John Naisbitt's book: "Global Paradox: The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players".This complete summary of the ideas from John Naisbitt's book "Global Paradox" answers a fundamental question: what is the global paradox? In his book, the author explains that as the world economy expands, the smallest elements (right down to the individual)...
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  • The must-read summary of John Warrillow's book: "The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry".This complete summary of the ideas from John Warrillow's book "The Automatic Customer" explains that subscription-based products are becoming increasingly popular, as it means customers are buying from a business automatically each month. Rather than having to put lots of time and money into...
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  • The must-read summary of Jorge Vasconcellos E. Sa's book: "The Neglected Firm: Every Manager Must Manage Two Firms: The Present One and the Future One".This complete summary of the ideas from Jorge Vasconcellos E. Sa's book "The Neglected Firm" shows that one of the central challenges of management is the need to strike the optimum balance between what a business...
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  • The must-read summary of Lars Tvede's book: "Supertrends: Winning Investment Strategies for the Coming Decades".This complete summary of the ideas from Lars Tvede's book "Supertrends" shows that in order to be highly successful as an investor, there's no point looking at projected profits for investments in the next twelve months alone. Instead, you need to take into account the big...
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  • The must-read summary of Les McKeown's book: "Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track - and Keeping It There".This complete summary of the ideas from Les McKeown's book "Predictable Success" shows that every business goes through regular and periodic stages of growth and decline. This pattern of organisational development has traditionally been termed the "Lifecycle of a Business"...
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  • The must-read summary of Paul Nutt's book: "Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Traps and Blunders that Lead to Debacles".This complete summary of the ideas from Paul Nutt's book "Why Decisions Fail" shows that in order to make better decisions and avoid the debacles, you need to avoid the three blunders and seven traps that can lead to bad decisions. In...
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