Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

Successful leaders are not “just lucky”, even when their career may have some seemingly coincidental moments. Companies have done this by requiring employees to have lunch with someone outside their organization, fostering diversity, and establishing the office as a community through deeper connections. They worked hard to get lucky.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

. “Entrepreneurship is a key skill for new graduates entering the job market today, and more and more corporations are setting up corporate venturing and internal incubators to support innovation, so this is hugely valuable, even if they don’t build a startup.”

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Skills Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Education 109

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The bar was set high: The district would need to create jobs, engage the surrounding community, inspire connection between the existing neighborhood and the broader city, preserve historical identity, and incubate entrepreneurship — all while making economic sense as a development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Interacting with two or more cultural contexts can help immigrants combine diverse ideas, solutions, and customer problems in order to create something entirely new. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Such policies are often illegal but nonetheless remain in practice.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. Partner with others.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

With 440,000 employees in 170 countries, Palmisano recognized that IBM couldn't be run solely from the top; rather, it needed thousands of leaders operating collaboratively around the globe to fulfill its customers' diverse needs. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand!

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