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Month: December 2018

Digital growth depends more on business models than technology

December 19, 2018

More than 20 companies launched in 2009, including Uber, Slack, Pinterest, and Blue Apron, all eventually achieved $1 billion-plus valuations. Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

You would be wrong.

The hard truth about innovative cultures

December 19, 2018

Innovative cultures are generally depicted as pretty fun. Other characteristics extolled by management books include tolerance for failure, willingness to experiment, psychological safety, highly collaborative, and nonhierarchical. And research supports the idea that these behaviors translate into better innovative performance.

But despite the fact that innovative cultures are desirable and that most leaders claim to understand what they entail, they are hard to create and sustain. How can practices apparently so universally loved—even fun—be so tricky to implement?

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    World Wide Waste - How digital is killing our planet—And what we can do about it

    Gerry McGovern

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    Sustainable Web Design (A Book Apart #34)

    Tom Greenwood

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    Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit

    Alex Edmans

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    The Power of Ethics: How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World

    Susan Liautaud

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    Open: How We’ll Work, Live and Learn In The Future

    David Price

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    How Will You Measure Your Life?

    Clayton M. Christensen