Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication. Their questions can lead to innovation.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” He notes that an entrepreneur is not a gambler. They look beyond their ego.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A S A PROFESSOR, an entrepreneur, the president of Stanford University, and now the Chairman of the Board of Alphabet (Google’s Parent company) and Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, John Hennessy has had a lot of leadership experience. Innovation. In Leading Matters , he shares the stories of what worked and what didn’t work.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

As an entrepreneur, I have worked tirelessly to regain some semblance of comfort and financial security. You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. It is an opportunity to create and be innovative.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 6, 2020

Now more than ever, there is a strong need to remain relevant and innovative within your career. Listen in as Bonnie shares actionable tips for how to stay marketable in a virtual world, and how to align yourself for the best possible outcome within your career during this crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2021

“We found that entrepreneurs benefit much more from emotional competences than other competencies — such as IQ — due to high uncertainty and ambiguity that comes with the world of entrepreneurship and even more applicable in a crisis,” the researchers explain. ” Managing uncertainty. .

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 29, 2021

Being an entrepreneur is undoubtedly a stressful experience as you struggle to develop a product or service that is attractive to the market with minimal resources and little in the way of income. The research explores some strategies that can be deployed to help entrepreneurs cope with those stresses. We’re trying to fix that.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2022

When we talk of entrepreneurs there is a tendency to think in terms of Hernan Cortes, the famous Spanish explorer who burned his ships upon landing in Mexico in order to convince his men that there was no turning back. The post Are Entrepreneurs Better Off Keeping Their Day Jobs? Hedging bets. Having a plan B.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Intuitively, yes, entrepreneurship is a risky career path. I’ve coached literally thousands of entrepreneurs in my twenty years in higher education and the business world, and have owned multiple businesses during that time. One of the assessment tools we use a great deal is the Basadur Innovation Profile.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2019

As president and co-founder of Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson utilized the theory of disruptive innovation to invest in publicly traded stocks and private early stage companies. Perhaps innovative thinking among your management team has stalled. Dare to innovate.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously. link] Summary Sunday | Guide for Lifetime Career Navigation | Career Sherpa [.]

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Women on Business

MARCH 30, 2011

Did you know failure is one of the biggest indicators of future success in an entrepreneur? The fact is that businesses will not assume the risks necessary for innovation and development if they’re not ok with the idea of failing on some level. In other words, they are looking for… failures! But, no one WANTS to fail!

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Famous entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, are often portrayed as mythical creatures who have left the womb imbued with the talent, burning desire, and tolerance for risk-taking required to be the exceptional entrepreneurs they ultimately became. The reality isn’t quite so romantic. Supporting entrepreneurship.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 18, 2014

Aaron is a globally recognized social entrepreneur and the CEO of Imperative , a technology platform that enables people to discover, connect and act on what gives them purpose in their work. His “ chocolate and peanut butter ” moment in his career when he left a high-paying Silicon Valley job, and created the Taproot Foundation.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. The more I began to ponder the heroism of our military (past and present), the more I began to consider the traits possessed by our nation’s warriors. I Think Not.

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CEO Insider

MAY 21, 2020

As outside general corporate counsel to well over a hundred startups in all stages of growth in my legal career, across the innovation ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond, I am often asked by startup founders and entrepreneurs to help them with capital raising and introductions to venture capitalists, business angels, and family offices.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Immigrant entrepreneurs. Traditionally, it has been thought that immigrants make such good entrepreneurs both because they bring novel perspectives with them from their homeland, but also the unfamiliarity with the domestic labor market makes entrepreneurship an attractive alternative to traditional employment.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Trevor wanted his people to be pillars of innovation and creativity. When he came to me for coaching around innovation, he mentioned how fearful his team was in taking risks and possibly touching failure. It’s most fitting to celebrate failures related to innovation, rather than execution, Harvard Business Review points out.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Research from George Mason University suggests that the majority of entrepreneurs actually resist describing themselves as such during these kinds of occasions. “We We also did not find major differences attributable to gender, even though prior research suggests that women face barriers when developing an entrepreneur identity.”

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Entrepreneurs are many things, but one thing that is common in many portrayals of them in popular culture is their acceptance of uncertainty, their courage in the face of risks, and their determination to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Overcoming the fear.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Co-Intelligence : Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Why is having a mentor crucial to success?

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2012

And although I am no longer engaged in commercial business, I am once again “thinking business” and enjoying the rush of discovering the ideas and innovations of today’s entrepreneurs. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2014

Change: Make both internal adjustments and external innovations to keep going and growing. But this decision-making paralysis affects plenty of people, and when it possesses an entrepreneur, there''s trouble with a capital T ahead. Innovation is announced in the marketplace through branding and marketing.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Martin's Press, 2023) In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft. Explore the challenges of once-innovative tech giants like Facebook and Google and the factors behind their struggles. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2020

The topic of entrepreneurship is one I’ve written about numerous times in recent years, and especially that of the age of entrepreneurs. Alas, this is often not the case, with various studies in the past few years showing that the most successful entrepreneurs are actually thoroughly middle-aged. ” Older entrepreneurs.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. We have to stop creating new business statuses such as the ‘auto-entrepreneurs’ in France and the ‘mini-jobs’ in Germany,” says Smart co-CEO Maxime Dechesne.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

My experience with most executives & entrepreneurs is that they are totally committed to and focused on success. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Most entrepreneurs never went to college, and most did not start their companies until they were well along in their careers. The average entrepreneur is nearly forty years old when he launches , and more than eighty percent of all new companies are stated by people over thirty-five. Eighty percent disappear within five years.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Leaders need to anticipate resistance early in the change or innovation process.”.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 22, 2020

Being able to explain the failure of your startup obviously has key implications for your future career, whether as a seasoned entrepreneur or in the salaried world. New research from Aalto University explores the different approaches entrepreneurs often take when telling their tale. Past or future?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2020

When you think of entrepreneurs, you probably think of twenty something men, possibly who have dropped out of university to pursue their dream, and who are uninhibited by the scars of failure that prompt us to take a more cautious path. Making the case for older entrepreneurs. What’s more, a 50 year old entrepreneur was 1.8

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

A MERICA WAS FOUNDED by entrepreneurs. Along with all of the other freedoms granted to its citizens, the freedom to risk and to fail encourages our culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. It is a golden age for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs believe they have to do it all. Today, you need $70 and some coding skills. ”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Jennifer Anastasoff is the head of an amazing organization called Fuse Corps , which places mid-career professionals and entrepreneurs inside city and state government in order to create innovations in the public sector. Innovation Leadership anastasoff burkus fuse corps innovation LDRLB Podcast'

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