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If The Entrepreneurial Shoe Fits, That Doesn’t Mean You Should Wear It

Terry Starbucker

She has faced many of these realities herself, during her career as an investment banker, deal maker, and business strategist. The “Secret&# of success is not just a great idea, a positive attitude, and venture funding. Are you willing to put in a LOT of hard work and practice? But it’s rarely so.

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The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy

The Horizons Tracker

This means they have to go beyond insecure gig work and offer people the trappings traditionally associated with a career. As such employees often have career opportunities within the company. Team leaders and account managers often begin life on the front line, and many of those who don’t move up internally go back to school.

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From Tech Investor to Author (with a16z’s Andrew Chen)

Harvard Business Review

Azeem Azhar speaks to Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen about their parallel career moves – from tech insiders to authors.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business Review

But this is not nearly frequent enough for Deere and companies facing fierce competition for rare technical talent from venture-funded startups and big software and services competitors like Amazon and Google. It turned out the employee had concerns about his career development, which the manager was able to resolve.

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Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up?

Harvard Business Review

They want the enterprise as a whole to be successful, but are more motivated by the challenges of their particular function and the ability to advance in their careers. In contrast, employees of large established firms operate with a different sense of risk and reward , reassured by financial security and structure.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Yet, we are paid 23% less than men on average. The Start Up Paradox.

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The Right (and Wrong) Way to Network

Harvard Business Review

Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. I learned this the hard way early on in my career. Networking Meetings Career planning' They may lead to business deals, connections to other great people, job offers, and more.