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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Or maybe he's a self-proclaimed "business model and monetization expert" fresh off the MBA assembly line. The first type is an "idea guy" who saunters over from Hollywood ready to wow with you a next-generation social media analytics platform. This type has an annoyingly loud mouth, but is relatively harmless.

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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Or maybe he's a self-proclaimed "business model and monetization expert" fresh off the MBA assembly line. The first type is an "idea guy" who saunters over from Hollywood ready to wow with you a next-generation social media analytics platform. This type has an annoyingly loud mouth, but is relatively harmless.

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The Best “Management Lessons” Story You’ll Ever Read

Harvard Business Review

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.