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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

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. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

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Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All

Harvard Business Review

As we in the United States juggle major structural and operational changes and try to secure our financial systems as revenues fall, we must keep our promise of safety and high quality to every patient, every time. Health Leadership Operations' As the report makes clear from the outset, there are lessons for all leaders in this story.

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