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Practicing Patience and Faith

Persuasive Powerhouse

We so need more innovative leaders like you to inspire these top talents! I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Stay blessed! Ellen Mary Jo Asmus : October 20, 2010 at 8:32 pm Ellen, thanks for your kind words. It comes from the work my clients do.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. That''s not right. Create mechanisms to enable experiments.

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An Entrepreneur's Three Strategies To Outsmart the Quants

Harvard Business Review

One software design firm we studied had a long-time partner that was trying to figure out how to hire and develop an "in house" group to manage network and technology hardware issues. The partner confidentially approached the software CEO for advice on how they developed and trained their own staff over the years.

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So You Want to Join a Board

Harvard Business Review

This is understandable but not good: The syndrome can lead to board timidity, herd mentality, and an aversion to innovation, which can hurt or even kill an enterprise. Develop telling examples of where you succeeded not by managing your team downwards but by leading sideways with your peers. Now comes the harder part: character.