Book review

Companies are struggling with innovation. The programmes they introduced don’t work, the idea box stays barren and the cynics have taken over the asylum. Lessons The Business Model Innovation Factory (BMIF) is currently the book we use to explain and show why innovation does not work.  Why this book and what can you learn from

I think that actively managing serendipity is more important than business optimisation. I am aware of the contradiction in managing and serendipity. Data, marketing, planning, organisation, strategy, intuition, education, passion, entrepreneurship and the future So I have been looking forward to Taleb’s new book. I was right. Having read it, I think it is a

Brett King is the author of “Bank 2.0”,  a futurologist, a banking sector specialist and founder of Movenbank. An author that practises what he preaches. When he wrote Bank 2.0, he was ahead of the curve and with “Bank 3.0” he jumps even further. Moore’s law, Gilders’ Law and Metcalf’s law Banking is of particular

This isn’t a traditional business book by any means In Delivering Happiness you get to experience the ups and downs that all small business owners know to be part of the lifestyle they have chosen. Zappos While Zappos may not be a small business today, it tries very hard to maintain the entrepreneurial ways that

Ivan Misner Ivan Misner is mister networking and the founder of BNI (Business Network International). He wrote this book with two other network experts. One male expert and one female expert. This is significant as the book is based on a survey of 12,000 business, 50% male, 50% female on their networking habits and perspectives.

Can you answer the most essential strategy question facing every business:  Does Your Company  Matter? The strategist Author Cynthia Montgomery redefines strategy and issues a call to arms for leaders to take back their rightful claim to be strategists of their own organisations. Ingvar Kamprad’s IKEA and the compelling purpose that is enabling the company to reap huge profits in

My Klout score was 55, my Peerindex score was 60 (now brandwatch), my Kredscore is 758, my PROskore was 50, my twittercounter showed a steady increase, although there was a serious dip in followers on the 2nd of September 2012 where 2,157 stopped following me. I posted a review of “Adapt” on that day on