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Great Leaders Embrace Innovation, and Innovation Demands Risks

Great Leadership By Dan

Often overlooked by great leaders is that very successful organizational level innovation requires a willingness to take risks, cultural openness to external ideas, and a structure to protect non-traditional ideas as they develop and prove value through proofs of concept testing. In some industries that is daunting.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Business development. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Self-promotional brochures.

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