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After the layoff: How to support your team when it just got smaller

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re still neck deep in downsizing, read my article, 5 Mistakes to Avoid During a Restructure, to avoid these sadly all-too-frequent mistakes. Incubator Guide. . Depending on how the downsizing was handled you might have some stupidity-recovery work to do. If you want more information on using the Own the U.G.L.Y.

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The Value of Vision Series – Kate Emery

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Yesterday we opened our new social enterprise incubator and co-working space to 60 community friends. One important component would be an incubator that provides space and services for new social entrepreneurs. Last week , we celebrated the officially opening of the reSET Social Enterprise Incubator and Community Co-working Space.

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Parting Ways with Public Trading

Harvard Business Review

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

” We restructured Machine Shop to focus on innovation through non-traditional business partnerships and creative design thinking. To help think through this critical strategic restructuring, we turned to a leading expert on marketing strategy for media and entertainment firms, Harvard Business School Professor Anita Elberse.

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The Example Larry and Sergey Should Follow (It’s Not Buffet)

Harvard Business Review

Coverage of Google’s restructuring has focused on the idea of Alphabet as a new kind of internet-era conglomerate. Or, if investors are enthusiastic about a new business that Liberty is incubating inside one of its existing companies, he can spin out that business as a “newco” with its own stock.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds.

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

In short, I think the new entity is much more than a typical corporate restructuring and promises to become a new type of conglomerate that could attract talent from a variety of scientific and technical fields and challenge incumbents in a wide range of industries.