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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It takes skillful attention to self-cannibalization, a bias toward innovation and recognition that 'sacred cows' often become someone else's T-Bone dinner steak. Then, we have the challenge to make our changes less threatening, so productive communication skills are a must.

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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. Christensen. By Daniel H.

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Building a Network That Works Takes Work

Harvard Business Review

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. We had vetted one another in a variety of contexts, they knew my skills, and I theirs, resulting in an already high level of trust. They came straight to me.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

These facilities help to fulfil the ultimate ambition of the project to create good jobs for the citizens of Qatar by equipping them with the skills they need to thrive in the future of work. Collectively there are over 3,000 students from over 60 nations on campus, undertaking 55 programs.