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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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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

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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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How Entrepreneurs Should Pitch When They Have Innovative Ideas

The Horizons Tracker

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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3 Factors Inventors Share: How to Change the World

Leading Blog

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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Understanding the Link Between Leadership and Innovation

Lead Change Blog

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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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

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.