Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

Perfect for managers, executives, directors, founders, entrepreneurs, and any business leader aiming to steer their organization towards success in a transformed landscape, this book provides the tools and insights needed to lead with conviction and humanity. It raises the question: Is the era of traditional employment over?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Entrepreneur coaching can be a transformative experience for both emerging and seasoned business leaders. Through the guidance of experienced professionals who have successfully built and scaled businesses, entrepreneurs gain access to invaluable knowledge that can reshape how they approach challenges and make decisions. The result?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

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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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The best approach Professor Simone Ferriani, an entrepreneurship professor at Bayes Business School, City, University of London, said, “We wanted to find the best way for entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to get attention and investment. Could their success depend on how they pitch?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

The Benefits of Executive Coaching for Start-Up Entrepreneurs Executive coaching has become increasingly popular among start-up entrepreneurs, and for good reason. By working with a seasoned coach, start-up entrepreneurs gain invaluable guidance and support that help them navigate the complexities of building a successful business.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

They watch the highlight reels of great leaders and think: “I’m no entrepreneur like [insert name here].” Before they even get started down the path of innovation, they decide coming up with fresh ideas and/or securing funding isn’t in their wheelhouse. You don’t have to make it big in business to be an entrepreneur.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

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).

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I looked back into history to track the origins of some of the everyday innovations we take for granted today, I found that every inventor tended to embody some or all of these same traits. It took a financial entrepreneur, Charles Flint, to merge several of these companies, creating International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

W E LIVE IN the age of the entrepreneur. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 29, 2020

With this in mind, the Coronavirus outbreak arguably represents an opportunity for growth and innovation, and good leadership will be central to ushering this in. But what’s the relationship between leadership and innovation and why exactly should you care? The Link Between Leadership and Innovation – The Key Considerations.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

A great leader not only steers their team toward achieving business goals but also drives innovation, motivates employees, and adapts to shifting market conditions. For entrepreneurs, continuously developing and honing these leadership abilities is crucial to staying ahead.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Every entrepreneur, every executive, every so-called “self-made millionaire” had help. Collaboration breeds innovation. If you think you did it all by yourself, you’re lying to yourself or forgetting all the people who had your back along the way. The Myth of the Lone Wolf Let’s get real. Remember, the best way to learn is to teach.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2021

This refers to taking the initiative to advance innovation, to act like an entrepreneur, within your company. It starts with you acting like an owner and holding yourself accountable, as well as holding senior managers accountable. Intrapreneur.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovation is key to sustainability. This inability to source deals from outside the four walls, and to do so quickly, is one of the main reasons why innovation in so many companies is stifled. By bringing multiple people with a new mindset in, you can kickstart innovation. Innovation is a team sport indeed.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For the past 15 years, he has been designing learning experiences for tech companies, schools, and nonprofits, exploring innovation, education, management, and personal growth. He has worked with teams from organizations including Harvard Medical School, F5 Networks, Angellist, and Google. Laurent Valosek is CEO of Peak Leadership Institute.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

It was a fitting tribute to the man who personified invention and innovation. So, let’s take a moment and consider four things about innovation that you can learn from Thomas Edison. Innovation Is A Team Sport. Edison knew that when it came to innovation, lots of minds and skillsets were better than one. Try, Try Again.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Indeed, the researchers found that training in so-called “catalyst-growth tools” enabled founders to achieve a boost in sales of around 72%, which represents around 40% more than entrepreneurs who didn’t get the same support. Targeted training.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 14, 2012

These types of pitches were on full display last week, when I participated (with 4 other of my fellow OAF investors) as judges at a “Pitch Night” event sponsored by the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network. Watching these passionate entrepreneurs was quite inspiring, not only to us, but to all who were in attendance.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 21, 2021

As a new paper from INSEAD highlights, there are also crucial infrastructure differences for urban and rural entrepreneurs. The research explores how platforms, which ostensibly equalize the playing field for urban and rural entrepreneurs, nonetheless produce very different outcomes. Access to information. Leveling the playing field.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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.” There are leaders and there are entrepreneurs, but not all leaders are entrepreneurs, and not all entrepreneurs are leaders. They look beyond their ego.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 31, 2014

There was an entrepreneurial spirit that sprung from all the makers, foodies, techies, innovators, dreamers, and groundbreakers that lived in the city and throughout the state of Oregon. We are creating a digital magazine that will tell the stories of entrepreneurship, innovation, and collaboration happening throughout Oregon.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

Guy Raz interviews innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists to create a narrative of their journey from spark to movement in a highly successful podcast on NPR and now a book entitled, How I Built This. Embedded in these stories of entrepreneurs are business advice and life lessons. That’s the entrepreneurial journey.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The study finds that when using crowdfunding, female entrepreneurs can especially benefit from using innovative language when launching their campaigns, with this found to work even when launching in traditionally male categories. Innovation language. Female success.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 13, 2022

It’s pretty well established that immigrants make excellent entrepreneurs, as the fresh perspective they bring to their new home affords them the opportunity to innovate, while a lack of familiarity with local systems and networks makes starting a business an attractive option for many. Barriers to success.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

What if our next generation of researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and academics fail to challenge conventional thinking? Whenever I see leaders focus on maintenance over innovation, I see people who have unnecessarily drawn the line of impossibility in the sand. Leaders must refuse to accept the status quo.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. It might amaze many people to know that successful entrepreneurs are rarely building on new ideas or disrupting existing industries. The following is a guest piece by Derek Lidow.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2022

Jeff Bezos famously remarked that he prefers entrepreneurs to be missionaries than mercenaries, so it perhaps stands to reason that many entrepreneurs create their businesses with a clear desire to make the world a better place. Sustainable ambitions.

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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. ” Entrepreneurial stress.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Female entrepreneurs pursuing innovative business ventures face a significant hurdle in securing funding due to unconscious bias exhibited by investors, as revealed by a study conducted by Northeastern University. The study highlights a particular instance that exemplifies the implicit biases at play.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Isn’t that for directors of nonprofits and starry-eyed Millennial entrepreneurs with idealistic dreams? Among the benefits that come to empathetic leaders, whether they are entrepreneurs or c-suite executives, are the following: Empathy is a catalyst for entrepreneurship or innovation.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

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. This instrument measures one’s preferences for engaging the innovation process.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

However, failing is a journey, a launchpad into new knowledge and new beginnings and the key to successful innovation and entrepreneurship. Failure is a destination, a windowless prison that does not exist unless you accept that it does.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. His new book is Can't Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur. After several successful ventures, he was suddenly diagnosed with a life-threatening genetic disease. His firm, Rose Ventures, Inc.,

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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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