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Light the Fire and Clear the Path

Mills Scofield

Because that was how I was managed and led from the start of my career, because that was really all I personally and gratefully knew, that was how I managed and led others; how could I know otherwise? In my career, I’ve helped clients ignite soul sparks and surpass goals we thought were long shots. Leo Tolstoy.

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Light the Fire and Clear the Path

Mills Scofield

Because that was how I was managed and led from the start of my career, because that was really all I personally and gratefully knew, that was how I managed and led others; how could I know otherwise? In my career, I’ve helped clients ignite soul sparks and surpass goals we thought were long shots. Leo Tolstoy.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

First, they are less likely to take risks – which means they are unlikely to invent new products, processes, or business models. We need to teach children to be courageous enough to take risks throughout their careers and to deal with the failures that unavoidably occur.

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. By applying this kind of arbitrage, a temporary or permanent migrant can decide to replicate a profitable product or business model available in one country but not in another. as young adult.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

Kendall Square and Silicon Valley are the best known, but hardly the only, places where we see rich interactions among serial entrepreneurs, VCs, law firms specializing in ventures, university technology transfer offices, and providers of physical incubator space. Need more convincing that the US economy now features an innovation sector?