Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

My quest to change student entrepreneurship on a global scale seeks to solve these challenges: how to engage students and the younger generation in entrepreneurship, and how to get them to build companies. TheFounderProject is making entrepreneurship not only cool, but attainable and a viable option as a path forward.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Homeless, Not Helpless: Entrepreneurship in Unlikely Places. I’ve never thought of the homeless as innovative or entrepreneurial. The next exhibition is a checkered tablecloth, a candle, a vase of flowers and a beautiful place setting for one. Next to that is “Bet You Can’t” – three glasses suspended on a wire.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You obviously can’t begin a project without materials — but, chances are, you probably won’t get paid on your last project before the next one begins. Though suppliers typically offer 30-day terms, any contractor knows it often takes much longer than that to get paid on completed work, leading to inconsistency in cash-flow.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 4, 2011

Recently, a business professor friend invited me to address a luncheon of university students enrolled in his class on entrepreneurship. My class needs a perspective on entrepreneurship within the corporation—if that exists.”. Innovation and entrepreneurship began a comeback, albeit in measured bites. Main menu Home.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Books like Helping People Change and The Power of Bad , have the power to change forever how we work with others and address the things that hold us back. Grace is a tough concept to sell in today’s environment. Grace looks at the bigger picture. It is not primarily concerned for the self. It does not rejoice in the downfall of others. Blog Post ).

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The authors state that cross-border VC investment is now at record levels, with this in large part due to the increasingly international nature of entrepreneurship. This should perhaps come as no surprise. Driving AI. A broken pipeline. Research from Cornell suggests, however, that this is a pipeline that is increasingly dysfunctional.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

RT @ Geoff_Snyder : @ TanveerNaseer I’m happy to say that I continue to look forward to your next blog post. Managing Different Generations in the Workplace [link] # communication #management #. Innovation: Group dynamics can stifle a great idea [link] # innovation #creativity #. Always a good read! #.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Innovation has always been culturally synonymous with ‘the latest and greatest’, the ‘next big thing’, and on the surface this true. Companies like to rollout their innovations at trade shows and industry events to garner attention and praise for their good work. Sprints vs. Marathons. A Kilo of Feathers or A Kilo of Bricks.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

If you don’t believe me, just look at my profile picture – that was taken a couple of years ago, (okay, maybe I’m being a bit generous on that timeline). In the case of struggling Nabob Foods, two significant innovations facilitated the turnaround. While they played catch-up, we were already working on the next innovation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I was inspired to do this by the many wonderful teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return. The project is now called 100 Coaches and I am currently working on the selection of the next 75 coaches! A few months ago I came up with the idea of mentoring 15 people at no charge.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! I wrote “great teachers” and “very generous.” Dear Friends, Greetings from Seattle! At the program, Ayse asked us to write down our heroes.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We sell our bottled beverages and tea boxes in over 3,500 of the top retail accounts in the US from Whole Foods to Vitamin Shoppe and are generating over $100,000 / year of direct income for 2,000 indigenous farming families in Ecuador. Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie are the founders of one of my favorite startups ever, Runa.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If the next four decades of automation are going to look like the last four decades, people have reason to worry,” the authors say. They aim to cut through the hyperbole that has sadly come to dominate this topic and give empirical, evidence-driven commentary. At MIT, we are inspired by the idea that technology can be a force for good.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I wrote that they were all “great teachers” and “very generous.” I was inspired to do this by the many great teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return. They are also extremely kind and generous. This is an amazing group of talented people. 100 COACHES.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. The purpose was to recall and remember our heritage of business, entrepreneurship and the will to achieve even more. It boasts generations of healthy families. Houston was the first word spoken from the moon.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 9, 2015

Also, many qualified managers are choosing entrepreneurship, rather than continuing to climb the corporate ladder. Do you know how current trends will change the face of leadership in your company? Is your company ready to meet the new leadership challenges in the coming years? Every leader knows the importance of being strategic.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. I support that role by supporting our professors, doing research, and conducting our own research into practical questions around innovation. DAVID: This has nothing to do with the book. ” ANDREW: It is great.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to entrepreneurship, Einstein’s emphasis on problem definition is spot on. Albert Einstein once said, “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem, and only 5 minutes finding the solution.” This usually isn’t a wise move. This usually isn’t a wise move.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Becoming A Healthy Leader There are plenty of ways to become a healthy leader. I’ve shared various ways you can become a healthy leader over the last couple of weeks. Today, I wanted to bring new voices to the civanonversation on what a healthy leader looks like. To do this, I reached out to leaders I admire and respect. Michael Hyatt.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This perspective is less prevalent when talking about startups, however, because the rate of entrepreneurship has declined significantly in the U.S. over the last 30 years, and fewer startups are being generated today. But to harness immigrant entrepreneurship for better growth and job creation, we need more hard facts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This conflation of startups with entrepreneurship, and more broadly with “ business dynamism ,” has become so widespread it can muddle even the most serious research. For example, the admired Brookings Institution recently purported to explain an apparent decades-long decline in American entrepreneurship. That’s a common assumption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Another way to redefine the terms of the automation debate is to provide stock to employees, something many of the world’s most innovative companies already do. Over 33 companies are now working on autonomous vehicles, which will soon replace transport jobs. Automated farming is also quickly advancing. But why stop there?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

The projects were all being planned as if they were incremental innovations in a predictable setting: The assumption was that the organizations launching them had a rich platform of experience and knowledge upon which to draw. When HBR asked us to write about the origins of discovery-driven planning , we had to laugh.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ? (If Kenneth Andersson.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

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. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Value creation doesn’t mean creating individual wealth for our grads; it means empowering our grads with the know-how to innovate, create jobs and contribute to long-term economic growth. Eighty-seven percent of young people want to pursue entrepreneurship. At the same time, entrepreneurship in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

The next wave of technology innovation will require a paradigm shift — one that builds social purpose into the activities of our everyday lives. The next wave of technology innovation will require a paradigm shift — one that builds social purpose into the activities of our everyday lives. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. During those years I continued to write for those audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

The seventh stage of development typically takes places between the ages 40-64 and centers around generativity, a period not of stagnation, but of productivity and creativity, including a strong commitment to mentoring and shoring up the next generation. If we''re being honest, we probably agree with O''Leary.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

What is entrepreneurship? But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, "corporate entrepreneurship" is a rallying cry; for others, an oxymoron. The history of the word "entrepreneurship" is fascinating and scholars have indeed parsed its meaning.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

This week, the city of Libreville, Gabon, will host business and political leaders from around the world as Africa searches for ways to ensure the sustainability of its newfound optimism, fueled by a growing middle class, viable business models, good governance and entrepreneurial innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has been always both a gift and curse for me, a Millennial in the social change sector. In recent years, amazing programs like hers (Echoing Green provides seed funding and technical assistance to emerging social entrepreneurs) have made social entrepreneurs the entrepreneurship sector's new "it kids."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

They've turned to blaming angel investors for encouraging " an entire generation of entrepreneurs [to build] dipshit companies and hoping that they sell to Google for $25 million." The founders starting "dipshit companies" are not the same types of founders who would be starting the next billion dollar companies. No 20,000 tech jobs.

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