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Creating a Vision Statement

CO2

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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Creating a Vision Statement

CO2

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

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6 Signs You’re Living in an Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

In his landmark 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship , famed author and educator Peter Drucker wrote about an entrepreneurial society and its impact on economic development. Innovation precedes regulation, not the other way around. In entrepreneurial societies, innovation always precedes regulation.

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum.

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Leaders Can Turn Creativity into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. Share buybacks are preferred to investment in innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation.