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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

The new CxO will be tasked to define and craft strategy, make investment proposals, and defend them, so they have depth in the related sector and a brain the size of an elephant. Sales and marketing positions appear to provide broader sector hunting grounds, but reality can be different, and there are still many constraints.

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William Donaldson on Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like. Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader.

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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

The presumption is that one has to sacrifice entrepreneurial dreams in order to be successful at a specific career choice. Rushing into a business concept without a proper feasibility review including competitive research, market analysis, and customer input is rushing to an unproven plan. You can have your cake and eat it too. * * *.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career. On with the interview.

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Taking a Step Back Doesn’t Always Move You Forward

In the CEO Afterlife

Early in my career, when I worked for a couple of big companies in brand management, I joined my colleagues in nodding to the notion of taking a step back. That means nimbleness, laser-like focus, and market specialization. The answer is by out-spending their competitors and/or investing in acquisitions to increase market clout.

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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

This decline in highly-skilled entrepreneurs was also discovered by a study from Osaka University, which shows that the rate of startup formation has been on the decline for companies run by PhDs in science and engineering since 1997, which is particularly worrying as this group is regarded as crucial in transferring knowledge from lab to market. “We

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Are Older Entrepreneurs The Best Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

Members get a range of tech-related classes, and support in putting their skills to good use in the labor market. Many open businesses aimed at the older market, with the shorter horizon acting as a key motivator behind their efforts. We find that age indeed predicts success, and sharply, but in the opposite way that many propose.