By the end of 2011, I’ll have reviewed over 50 books here, in the weekly “Guru Review.” But by now, most books have already hit the shelves in time for the holiday business-gift-giving season. To help you find the perfect gift book for the business person in your life, I’ve selected my “favorite 15″ business books of 2011. You can’t go wrong with any of these, because they all do three things well: inform, inspire …
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Tag Archives: Best Practices Are Stupid
Make The Impossible Possible
I’m a firm believer in exploiting intelligent constraints to spur creativity and innovation. After all, restraining forces rule, and resources are always finite, so we need to be good at leveraging limits. The important question is this: are the limits you face preventing innovation, or enabling it? There’s only one right answer. The problem is we often and too easily allow tough constraints to defeat us right out of the gate, so we end up …
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Best Practices Are Stupid
Fellow OPEN contributor Stephen Shapiro has just published a terrific, extremely practical new book, provocatively titled Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Way To Out-Innovate The Competition. It’s an insightful and very useful collection of real-world strategies and tactics that actually work, from a practitioner’s perspective. I had the opportunity to pose a few questions to Steve. Q: You’ve compiled a list of 40 best practices. Wouldn’t I be stupid to use them? A: (chuckles) Well, …
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