Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being a founder has a profound impact on your career because it provides a relevant, observable, and hard to imitate signal (the three characteristics of strong reputation signals) of your leadership capabilities. Career Benefits of Entrepreneurial Activity for Individuals in Paid Employment: An Application of Signaling Theory.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. When all employees and stakeholders use the sustainability lens to make decisions, a new business model takes root.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. A VC firm is, first and foremost, an investment vehicle created to generate returns for investors that exceed those available in the fully liquid, low cost public equity markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

It is a trend that's slowly and silently killing them. It was led people by who have devoted their career to this topic and included Daniel Goleman, coiner of the term "emotional intelligence." In doing so, however, they are making themselves unconsciously more complex organizations. How can leaders prevent this from happening?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend. The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We started mapping future projections to resource commitments with a framework called the Opportunity Portfolio , in which projects are evaluated with respect to their market and technical uncertainty, their resource intensity, and their upside potential. Stepping-stone options have both high technical and high marketing uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. Businesses can use these trends to reconnect with their customers and their communities.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply. At the same time, business models in publishing have changed rapidly. Workers will more likely invest when standardized skills promise them a secure career path with reliably good wages in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote yesterday about how Read Write Web identified the Delicious users who were early bookmarkers of emergent technologies and key information, and followed those users as a way of identifying breaking stories and trends. Those relationships, as much as the bookmarks themselves, represent a common asset.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

They do not vacillate with the swings and trends of "popular opinion" This, along with an open mind to listen, learn from and entertain the possibility of equally valid, dissenting views is what makes great leaders. How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. That's how they lead.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When the students in the MBA course I teach on the gig economy ask me for the best thing they can do to prepare for their future careers, I tell them: “Stop looking for a job.” Beyond that core, however, companies face powerful economic and market incentives to keep full-time employee headcount low.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. As the definition of and market for the latest thinking evolves, SU is in a unique position to fluidly respond. And it doesn't just apply to whom we employ.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. I have long believed in eating my own cooking.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This reliance on and ability to network has been pivotal throughout my life and my career. How can these tools help you discover the unarticulated needs of existing markets and customers, maybe even discover entirely new markets and/or new business models? Because of my background, I'm hardwired to network.

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