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From business to career-focused reads, the books we recommend are varied in their applicability and value. Enrich your perspective and discover books for your mind, heart and much-needed entertainment. Full Disclosure: As an affiliate, through Amazon Associates, we receive compensation if you purchase through these links. All links below take you to Amazon.com

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The Industries of the Future

by Jonathan Valencia March 5, 2016

written by Jonathan Valencia

What Changes are coming in the next ten years?

Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what’s next for the world: the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years, and how we can navigate them.

While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds.

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The Art of Explanation: Making your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand

by Jonathan Valencia March 5, 2016

written by Jonathan Valencia

Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist.

You’ve done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully—but something is missing. People just don’t see the big idea, and it’s keeping you from being successful. Your idea has an explanation problem.

The Art of Explanation is for business people, educators, and influencers who want to improve their explanation skills and start solving explanation problems. These tools, tactics, and techniques will help you consistently inspire audiences to fall in love with your ideas, products, or services through better explanations in any medium.

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Illuminate

by Jonathan Valencia March 5, 2016

written by Jonathan Valencia

Businesses can choose to embrace change or ignore it—but they cannot stop it. When a company chooses not to change, the industry simply evolves past it. To thrive, organizations must continually reinvent themselves by imagining and implementing new initiatives.

40% of newly created companies last less than 10 years.

50% of Fortune 500 companies will be replaced by new companies in 59 years or less.

Source: www.businessweek.com

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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

by Jonathan Valencia March 3, 2016

written by Jonathan Valencia

“Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, saving you and your team countless hours and countless dollars. A must read for entrepreneurs of all stripes.” —Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup

From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.

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The Goal

by Jonathan Valencia March 3, 2016

written by Jonathan Valencia

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry – even to your bosses – but not to your competitors. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant – or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a professor from student days – Jonah – to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. The story of Alex’s fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas, which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt.

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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

by Jonathan Valencia March 3, 2016

written by Jonathan Valencia

The Building Blocks of Execution

Know your people and your business
Insist of realism
Set clear goals and priorities
Follow through
Reward the doers
Expand people’s capabilities
Know yourself

Know Your People and Your Business Leaders have to live their businesses. Leaders who are connected have distilled the challenges facing the business unit they are visiting into a half dozen or fewer fundamental issues. These challenges do not change much over short periods of time, and the way leaders like Larry master the total company is through a short list that cut across multiple business units. Being present allows you, as a leader, to connect personally with your people, and personal connections help you build your intuitive feel for the business as well as for the people running the business. They also help to personalize the mission you’re asking people to perform

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