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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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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. One of my clients is doing this with their “Blue Lobster Leadership” program (seriously, that’s the name!). It starts from the top. Are you one?

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. One of my clients is doing this with their “Blue Lobster Leadership” program (seriously, that’s the name!). It starts from the top. Are you one?

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources. Morgan, the Vanderbilts, and the Rockefellers.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Today’s innovators know that services, business models, collaboration, relationships, networks, knowledge, and social capital are the keys to the future. The other domain is leadership.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Today’s innovators know that services, business models, collaboration, relationships, networks, knowledge, and social capital are the keys to the future. The other domain is leadership.

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What Business Should Do about Occupy Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

ITC decided to measure its own performance in terms of its contribution to creating economic, environmental, and social capital through innovations that would be embedded in its business strategy. The company's market capitalization has grown 28-fold in the last 15 years to $33 billion.