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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. This program builds connections between recent alumni interested in starting ventures and established social entrepreneurs, mimicking other career-related network structures that promote entrepreneurship and new venture formation.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly. Shared work spaces and other entrepreneurship communities and incubators, such as “1776” in Washington, D.C.,

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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

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

Harvard Business Review

According to a recent study , even when MIT-based hardware startups had access to the skills and financing needed for R&D and proof-of-concept work, they required additional capital, production capabilities, and lead customers that the U.S. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups. simply couldn’t provide. Mind the Mittelstand.