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Teaching The Skills Entrepreneurs Need To Scale Their Business

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. This paper suggests in some ways, it most definitely can.

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A Stunning, New Leadership Lens

Steve Farber

We know that leadership is a decision not a position, and we have to work really hard to get better at it. We’ve been exploring the convergence of three essential qualities: Human Capital–individuals’ attributes, talents, capacities, and contribution. You have an important mission. Are you ready to take the next LEAP?

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Why Innovation is not "Invented Here"

Coaching Tip

Drawing on original research into motivating creativity, analysis of recent litigation, and empirical data from economics, psychology and network science, Lobel explores how the ways in which we fight over talent can either enhance or inhibit the innovative spirit of an organization. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

It is quite different for entrepreneurs inside where the most significant investment (and risk) criteria they consider is their social standing and relationship capital within the organization. You want enough to get started given your investment analysis and an orientation toward building as you further your efforts against the idea.

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The More You Energize Your Coworkers, the Better Everyone Performs

Harvard Business Review

Rob Cross and I discovered this in research we did on energy mapping, using organizational network analysis to reveal the network of energy in the workplace. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement.

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How to Negotiate After a Staggering Defeat: A Playbook for Democrats

Harvard Business Review

We’ve heard a lot about how the Democrats need new leadership. As heated and politically convenient rhetoric gives way to somber analysis, it is not hard to imagine that Comprehensive Immigration Reform 2.0 This is problematic even in the best of times. When times are bad, it can be fatal. as children). will make its debut.