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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

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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?

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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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How Good Management Skills Help Entrepreneurs Succeed

Tanveer Naseer

The key to success as an entrepreneur is developing good management skills. That’s right, it might seem impossible at first glance, but with a little bit of training and practice, you’ll see that the more time you put into improving your management skills, the better off you will be in. Click to continue reading.

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How Do I Become a More Effective Middle Manager? (Video)

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Practical Ideas For Becoming a Better Middle Manager. Middle managers are like the middle child of an organization; often neglected by senior managers and blamed by their reports. Mary Galloway, Faculty member of the Jack Welch Management Institute. about the challenging role of being a middle manager.

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Learning to Manage the Map Paradox

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Entrepreneurs often find themselves in the Map Paradox because once they build a mental model around their idea, they look for supporting information and fall prey to what they do not know. “A The best way to avoid the Map Paradox is to continuously place your mental model up against models that are different from yours.

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How Well Do You Manage Up? A Challenge and Other Tools

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How well do you manage up? Karin Hurt is a newly minted entrepreneur. Career & Learning careers imperfect boss managing up talking to your boss' Today, I’m exited to bring you several additional resources, including a free knowledge assessment. Overcoming an Imperfect Boss Credspark Knowledge Challenge.

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Leading Views: Entrepreneurs Are the Heroes of Creative Destruction

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The authors talk not only of the familiar product innovation but also America’s process innovation—innovation in management and organizing production. Entrepreneurs drawn from every level of society are the primary drivers of this creative destruction. But they are seldom the easiest of heroes, or the nicest.