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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Innovation Capital. I think ideas come from everywhere.

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What Driverless Cars Mean for Today’s Automakers

Harvard Business Review

The automotive industry has opened up again. Up until the late 1950’s, anyone interested in sending bulk product across the globe placed that product in 60-pound burlap sacks, sent those to the docks, and entrusted longshoremen to tuck them efficiently into nooks and crannies in the hulls of merchant vessels.

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Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

Harvard Business Review

When I presented that thesis to a room of executives, including in the automotive industry, four years ago, most of them said that this scenario is at best 20 years away, that “Tesla would never be able to produce a solid car,” and that “Lyft and Uber are just for Millennials.”

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.

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What the Auto Industry Can Learn from Cloud Computing

Harvard Business Review

The five largest automotive companies in the world generate more than 750 billion euro in annual revenue. Information technology, however, is one of those industries. It may be a long time before cloud transportation companies offer anywhere near the same variety that ownership can confer.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries.

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