Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. ” Prior to starting any engagement, clients should approve a statement of work and commit to paying the “fees” for the internal consulting team out of their budgets. Win on merit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

In a world of layoffs, outsourcing, and industry disruption, the only "career insurance" you can get is through figuring out the answer to one particular question: how can you make yourself truly valuable professionally? Those paths were developed by people who rely on process and rules to tame the chaos that is life. Maxwell Wessel.

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