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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Ultimately, Edison’s commercial victories over Tesla were due not to the superior quality of Edison’s ideas but to differences in the men’s innovation capital. Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Don’t Judge the Economy by the Number of Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

These growing businesses – which we call “scale-ups” to distinguish them from start-ups – represent exactly the kind of long-term entrepreneurship that improves societies, jobs, quality of life, and innovation. But wait a minute – is starting more new businesses always a good thing?

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. I know because I ask a second question: On a scale of one to five, how would you rate the quality of your current network? Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials. A decade from now we may look back at China's 12th Five-Year Plan as the seminal document of the early 21st century. It pledges $1.5