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The Mindset Every Leader Needs to Infuse into Their Company Right Now

Lead Change Blog

However, while often not “planned”, our research shows that many leaders’ paths follow this pattern because they have been operating with a serendipity mindset. A serendipity mindset is not a mythical power that only specific leaders are born with but a way of operating in both our professional and personal lives that can be learned.

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Entrepreneurship Skills Can Last A Lifetime

The Horizons Tracker

“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.” Student entrepreneurship.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S. It is not about you.

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How an Ecosystem Mindset Can Help People and Organizations Succeed

Harvard Business Review

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. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it.

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Microfinance Is Good for Women, but It's Only Part of the Solution

Harvard Business Review

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. more hours than men on unpaid work, including caring for family members, each day.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Consider how Barcelona, for example, systematically seeks innovative solutions from entrepreneurs: winning proposals receive guaranteed contracts, plus additional support like office space for their operations. For good reason: these firms are diverse, resilient, and geographically distributed engines of innovation.