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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. But the most common cause of death they reported?

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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. The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. The list goes on.

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