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Leading Blog
MAY 1, 2024
Ty Wiggins, an experienced leadership advisor specializing in CEO transitions, explains how to land well as a new CEO, accelerate your impact, and unlock the most affirming experience of your career. Venture capitalists are known for their extraordinary ability to spot opportunities.
Kevin Eikenberry
OCTOBER 8, 2010
Do you know all the latest about your hobbies, but are constantly suprised about the changes in in your industry? Reply Leanne Hoagland-Smith October 8, 2010 at 9:42 am Agree your reading should be one of your professional development or mental development goals depending upon your own goal driven action plan.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2016
You may have a few outliers in the mix, but unless you’ve been deliberate about your networking, the vast majority of people you know probably work in the same field or industry as you. First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry.
The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 20, 2024
“A small number of astute venture capitalists have suspected this for some time, but now we have the data to demonstrate this is the case.” . “We find that personality traits don’t simply matter for start-ups — they are critical to elevating the chances of success,” the researchers explain.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2017
One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells. Start with a survey.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
At INSEAD, two students Philippe Dongier and Katie (co-author of this post) sent a school-wide email asking if anyone was interested in cultivating coursework and careers related to nonprofits. Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow.
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