Posts Tagged ‘ Breakthrough ’

What drives creativity?

July 12, 2010
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“To get what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done.” - Harvey Mackay Many good ideas have been discovered because someone poked around in an outside industry or discipline, and applied what he found to his own field. For example, Dan Bricklin took the “spreadsheet” concept from accounting and turned it...

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Breakthrough Recommended Books

January 29, 2008
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Breakthroughs! by P. Ranganath Nayak This is the story about the people and companies behind fourteen of the most successful 20th century commercial breakthroughs: the VCR, the Post-it note, ChemLawn, Tagamet, the Walkman, The CAT Scanner, the microwave oven, Toyota manufacturing system, Nike, Nautilus, propylene, Federal Express, Club Med, and the compact disk.] The...

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