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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?” 5 Ways to Help Your Team Think Like Entrepreneurs.

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Just What Do You Mean, Entrepreneur?

Leading Blog

There are very few budding entrepreneurs that would not want to duplicate their success. David Sax, author of The Soul of an Entrepreneur , says that a startup myth has developed that has “increasingly defined what an entrepreneur was supposed to look like, how they behaved, and what they did.

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15 Nuggets of Wisdom From 15 Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

The best way to discover them is to ask those who have overcome the odds to tell their stories, and that’s what the Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network (OEN) did last week here in Portland, inviting 15 Oregon entrepreneurs to speak at their first OEN Summit.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Leading Views: Entrepreneurs Are the Heroes of Creative Destruction

Leading Blog

In this chronological account beginning with the American Revolution, the genius of America’s innovative success is not only its tolerance of but also its penchant for creative destruction. The authors talk not only of the familiar product innovation but also America’s process innovationinnovation in management and organizing production.

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Tailored Executive Coaching for the Entrepreneur: Vision to Victory

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Executive Coaching for the Entrepreneur Regardless of their industry or background, the entrepreneur faces unique challenges on their entrepreneurial journey. It is said that big doors swing on small hinges; this metaphor is especially true for the entrepreneur.

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Business Dean Search: Uncovering Leadership for Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs

N2Growth Blog

A truly effective leader fosters an inclusive culture of innovation and collaboration, which is critical to creating a dynamic learning environment. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, a good business program must build and maintain a culture of innovation, adaptability, and adventure (i.e., comfort with risk).