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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

To start this adventure, you need to know that you will eat and work with bread until you have a solid business and you can get it on track. There are various opinions about how to start a business. Before you can take bold action, you need an idea to start a business. Part 1 Have an Idea. Come Up With an Idea.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation. See the rest of the series here.