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Ideas Are Not The Keys To Entrepreneurial Success

Tanveer Naseer

Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. Ford did not think up the combustion engine or automobiles, Edison did not think up incandescent light bulbs, Larry Page did not think up search engines. The following is a guest piece by Derek Lidow.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Successful Innovators Don’t Care About Innovating

Harvard Business Review

Successful innovators care about solving interesting and important problems — innovation is merely a byproduct. Focusing on innovating — as a worthy goal unto itself — tends to be born from self-centered motives: We need to protect ourselves from competitive forces. We need to ensure we have a growth engine.

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

Tanveer Naseer

These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism. The trust of many in a system that has been the most spectacular generator of innovation in history was damaged by the unbridled greed of a few. Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough.

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M&A Without Buying the Company

N2Growth Blog

I want you to think about acquisitions from this perspective – anything that has been well engineered or properly developed has also been heavily invested in. or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections.