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213: Dealing with Challenging Employees when Building Courageous Culture | with Karin Hurt

Engaging Leader

A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Book: Courageous Cultures . Idea incubator guide (with pre-ordering). Idea Inspiration Summit July 23.

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212: Building a Courageous Culture that Facilitates Innovation and Problem-Solving | with Karin Hurt

Engaging Leader

A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Book: Courageous Cultures . Idea incubator guide (with pre-ordering). Idea Inspiration Summit July 23.

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Accelerators Need To Do More To Foster Connections

The Horizons Tracker

Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Making connections.

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What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Its success, however, as an educational entrepreneurial incubator, suggests that it is a potential source not only of future leaders and innovators in education but as a model for educational leadership creation in itself. Indeed, the TFA application process is highly selective and consists of multiple steps.

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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

If companies want to be able to consistently innovate, they need dedicated innovation professionals to carry out the functions of discovery, development, incubation, acceleration, and scaling. But this innovation division can’t be siloed off from the rest of the business.