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Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. EA says that would stifle innovation. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. Check their market cap and reputation for innovation. In the CEO Afterlife.

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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. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

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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. Assess yourself not only as a sector expert but also as an executive with special competences and map those attributes against the market’s needs. Make it easy for them.