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Innovation is about letting go of today’s assumptions to make room for tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

Shifts in the market, culture, and technology rarely happen the way they are predicted. Always keep an ear to the ground for early signs of change.

Don’t be excessively loyal to the old ways of doing things. Set your best people to work on identifying tomorrow’s opportunities, not fixing yesterday’s problems with yesterday’s products.

The Definitive Drucker: Challenges For Tomorrow’s Executives — Final Advice From the Father of Modern Management by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim summarizes the most popular ideas presented by Peter Drucker. Peter Drucker wrote 39 books and is regarded as the founding father of modern business management.

To survive in an era of constant change, stay focused on the core of your business; the one problem you solve for your customers.

Remember that your customer’s world is being disrupted too. How can you make it easier for them to take advantage of the new world?

Building on many of the ideas presented in Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, Creative Disruption: What you need to do to shake up your business in a digital world by Simon Waldman, examines specific strategies that have enabled some businesses to thrive as technology turns entire industries upside down, while others become irrelevant.

If there is one common trait among successful people, it is the ability to keep pushing the ball forward.

Ideas come cheap, but without taking the next step they fade away, often replaced by the next idea.

To have an impact, continuously ask yourself “Now What?” and take action.

In Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, Scott Belsky explores why creative people are often paralyzed by their very nature. This book offers a detailed method for bringing ideas to reality.

Feedback is typically focused on the past, and on what someone did wrong. The problem is that most people don’t like to give negative feedback, and even fewer people like to hear negative feedback. Uncomfortable topics—the ones that need the most attention—are either avoided, or the feedback is not heard.

With “feedforward” people can focus on hearing the suggestions without becoming defensive or worrying about their reply. People respond better to ideas they can still act on, and we are all free to change the future.

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In What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, executive coach Marshall Goldsmith addresses the unique challenges faced by leaders. From confusing correlation with causation, to adding too much value, this book discussed the habits that will hold you and your organization back, and offers suggestions for improvement in the future.