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7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right

Rajesh Setty

Nothing can replace the power of actual experience but being prepared and equipped will take that experience to a whole new level. Gamifying will accelerate the process of adoption and frictionless transfer of your beliefs about the offering. How do you do this? All the best!

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If You Want to Lead, Read These 10 Books

Harvard Business Review

What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women's voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness. Our ability to wield power and control situations is our masculine side, while the capacity for relatedness and love is feminine.

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Is Bias Fixable?

Harvard Business Review

Because only when you acknowledge that you are blind to an issue, can you begin the process of seeing more clearly. This alone is powerful. If you believe that bias is simply an accumulation of culturally accepted norms, then you can recognize your power in shifting those norms. Diversity Gender Leadership'

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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. It adds a bit of humility to the process. 3) Measure, validate, repeat.

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The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

It turns out that many aspects of lean startup, like showing rough prototypes to customers before you’ve invested lots of time and money, iterating based on their feedback, and letting data prove or disprove your hunches, all have powerful appeal inside big companies, where endless meetings and executive approvals often bog down innovation.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.