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  • The must-read summary of Mary Cronin's book: "Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business".This complete summary of the ideas from Mary Cronin's book "Unchained Value" shows that you can’t transform a conventional firm into a digital business by simply grafting a few Web initiatives onto the current business structures. Instead, the existing business chain will need to be replaced...
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  • The must-read summary of Michael Basch's book: "Customer Culture: How FedEx and Other Great Companies Put the Customer First Every Day".This summary of the ideas from Michael Basch's book "Customer Culture" shows how building a business that focuses exclusively on what the customer wants requires the right systems to be put in place so that the company consistently acts to...
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  • The must-read summary of Michael Hammer and James Champy’s book: “Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution”. This complete summary of the ideas from Michael Hammer and James Champ’s book “Reengineering the Corporation” shows how it is important to forget about business traditions and invent a new, process-focused business organisation that leads to better performance. In their book, the...
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  • The must-read summary of Mitch Joel's book: "Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends On It.".This summary of the ideas from Mitch Joel's book "Ctrl Alt Delete" highlights that every industry will sooner rather than later be forced to make the transition into the fully-digital future of business. This summary highlights that the need to...
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  • The must-read summary of Patrick Barwise and Sean Meehan's book: "Simply Better: Winning and Keeping Customers by Delivering What Matters Most".This complete summary of the ideas from Patrick Barwise and Sean Meehan's book "Simply Better" highlights how the benefits of differentiation have been overstated. Instead of wanting something unique or even a cutting edge product, most customers simply want a...
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  • The must-read summary of Peter Navarro's book: "The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Navarro's book "The Well-Timed Strategy" shows how understanding the business cycle and then using it to maximum advantage is an unexploited area of business management expertise. And yet, it makes good sense to use the cycle...
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  • The must-read summary of Peter Thiel and Blake Masters' book: "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future".This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Thiel and Blake Masters' book "Zero to One" shows how many companies believe the key to innovation is improving things that already exist. According to Thiel and Masters, this isn’t innovation...
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  • The must-read summary of Rhonda M. Abrams' book: "The Successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies".This complete summary of the ideas from Rhonda M. Abrams' book "The Successful Business Plan" shows how a business plan is designed to be a road map for a company. A well-written and professional business plan articulates a company’s goals and acts as a guide for...
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  • The must-read summary of Robbie Kellman Baxter's book: "The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction and Build Recurring Revenue".This complete summary of the ideas from Robbie Kellman Baxter's book "The Membership Economy" highlights the fact that more and more corporate giants (like Apple and Amazon) are re-thinking their business models to go from selling individual products to...
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  • The must-read summary of Robert B. Tucker's book: "Managing the Future".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert B. Tucker's book "Managing the Future" shows how no business can afford to rest on its laurels and on the successes of the past. If there’s one hallmark of long-term companies, it’s the ability to manage the future as well as the...
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  • The must-read summary of Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's book: "Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's book "Naked Conversations" shows how blogs changed from being quirky entities for exhibitionists to crossing over into the broader business community. "Blogging" is becoming an extremely effective...
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  • The must-read summary of Robert Tucker's book: "Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Tucker's book "Driving Growth Through Innovation" shows how the best and only way to actually grow a company is to innovate – to offer customers something new. In his book, the author explains how innovation...
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  • The must-read summary of Roy H. Williams' book: "The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic and Dreamers into Millionaires".This complete summary of the ideas from Roy H. Williams' book "The Wizard of Ads" shows that, while technology is changing and advancing dramatically, people’s hearts and motivations aren’t changing at all. In fact, people today are still as predictable as...
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  • The must-read summary of Rusty Rueff and Hank Stringer's book: "Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business".This complete summary of the ideas from Rusty Rueff and Hank Stringer's book "Talent Force" shows how few businesses make the effort to create a true talent force, rather than a workforce. In their book, the authors explain that the...
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  • The must-read summary of Shep Hyken's book: "Amaze Every Customer Every Time: 52 Tools for Delivering the Most Amazing Customer Service on the Planet".This complete summary of the ideas from Shep Hyken's book "Amaze Every Customer Every Time" shows how you have a competitive edge when you amaze your customers every time they deal with you, regardless of the state...
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  • The must-read summary of Stan Davis and Bill Davidson's book: "2020 Vision: Transform Your Business Today to Succeed in Tomorrow's Economy".This complete summary of the ideas from Stan Davis and Bill Davidson's book "2020 Vision" shows that companies are under pressure to constantly update themselves and their products to keep up with adjustments in technology. Over the next 30 years...
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