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What is the secret of business longevity? Many organizations rightly focus on fostering innovation and invention to capture new markets and boost profitability, yet reinvention may be a more sustainable formula for staying on top. Packed with real-life examples, this week’s reading recommendation equips you with the blueprint to build a resilient corporate culture that …

Read More about Book Summary: The Invincible Company – Business Model Strategies From the World’s Best Products, Services, and Organizations

Continuous Discovery Habits (2021) explores how product managers and designers can keep making a positive impact on their customers’ lives. It explores an optimal decision-making process for product teams, so that they can continue to improve their offerings. Who is it for? Product managers looking for a new way of working Entrepreneurs seeking a fresh …

Read More about Book Summary: Continuous Discovery Habits – Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

Brilliance by Design (2011) is all about creating learning experiences that bring out the brilliance in every student. Targeted at coaches, teachers, mentors, and anyone who spends time in a classroom, it provides a handy and helpful model for high-impact instructional design that will inspire and motivate learners. Who is it for? Teachers looking to …

Read More about Book Summary: Brilliance by Design – Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Do you wish you could design your life the way that engineers design machines or city planners design roads? You can by using “design thought.” In this book summary of The Achievement Habit, you’ll learn the principles of design thought and how to apply them to your life, so you can stop making excuses and …

Read More about Book Summary: The Achievement Habit – Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

Creativity can feel hard to control and difficult to summon. Maybe you never know when your creative inspiration will show up, and you spend hours in front of your desk struggling with creative blocks. As a solution, Tina Seelig explains how to turn your creative impulses into a simple, accessible set of attitudes and actions. …

Read More about Book Summary: Creativity Rules – Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

In Kurashi at Home (2022), interior organization expert Marie Kondo invites readers to conceptualize their ideal kurashi, or lifestyle. Kondo then shows how, through interacting with and optimizing their living spaces, readers can achieve our idea of kurashi. Introduction: Learn to live well in your space. Inspired by Shinto religious practice, Marie Kondo developed an …

Read More about Book Summary: Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home – How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life

Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, provides readers with invaluable insight on identifying and conquering inner battles against fear and self-doubt. This inspirational book is a must-read for those who have experienced difficulty in pursuing their passions and dreams. Pressfield offers an in-depth examination of the limiting forces that prevent one from achieving …

Read More about Book Summary: War of Art – Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

If you were the owner of a fast food restaurant that sold milkshakes, and your milkshakes weren’t selling well, how would you go about improving your milkshakes? Would you buy higher quality ingredients? Would you survey customers to see what flavors they would like to see on the menu? Would you focus on one popular …

Read More about Book Summary: Competing Against Luck – The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

“When an expert asks, ‘Will people understand my idea?’ her answer will be Yes, because she herself understands.” – Chip & Dan Heath Made to Stick explains why some ideas become popular, while others wither and die. The book “Made to Stick” lays out the most important characteristics of “stickiness”; that is, what makes ideas …

Read More about Book Summary: Made to Stick – Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die