Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

In Jon Mertz’s new book, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders , Jon talks about Soul Sparks: “Soul sparks are those small ignitions of inspiration that fan into big changes, new directions, or fresh works. Brown University Culture Innovation Jon Mertz Leadership Management Millennials Soul Sparks'

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Mentor Incubator Open-book Innovation 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Leading Blog

AUGUST 18, 2017

It’s scheduled white space—a commitment you make to yourself simply because your leadership begins with who you are—not what you do. Joey Reiman, CEO of the consulting firm BrightHouse, credits their success to their “longer, incubation pace.” There is no particular structure to it—place, time, or length—but it must focus the mind.

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Press Release Incubator Library Creativity 157

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit. As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. “Ask if you are able to move into other functions and other roles as your career progresses.

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How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Each phase of my career offered different challenges, successes, and lessons, but my most exhilarating moments were undoubtedly during the start-up phases. As some of you will remember, I headed a start-up called HCL Comnet in 1993, which incubated the idea of remote infrastructure management services. Entrepreneurship Leadership'

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Succession Incubator Price Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. What did they come up with?

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now incubators such as Y Combinator and TechStars are performing this task for the best existing entrepreneurs. If entrepreneurs meet certain milestones, but their business still fails, they should be guaranteed placement in firms in need of entrepreneurial leadership. Picture something like a rotational program for innovation.

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Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Looking at it from a " jobs-to-be-done " perspective, a prospective mentee is usually trying to get the functional job done of advancing his career. This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta.

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

” This limits what your team is able to accomplish as well as individual team members’ careers. When Trevor Longino worked at an Orlando-based startup incubator, he was promoted from copywriter to VP of marketing within his first six months on the job. He says his approach to leadership has evolved.

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Management Video Team Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Paul Gudgin, the Fringe's artistic director from 1999 to 2007 (and who now advises festivals around the world), calls the event "the world's greatest artistic incubator." But you can make your career. To maximize what you learn from the process, minimize the natural leadership instinct to control what happens among the participants.

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Creativity Participative Audience Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. Shared work spaces and other entrepreneurship communities and incubators, such as “1776” in Washington, D.C.,

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

If companies want to be able to consistently innovate, they need dedicated innovation professionals to carry out the functions of discovery, development, incubation, acceleration, and scaling. Companies need to create innovation careers rather than just innovation jobs.

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