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Elon Musk by Walter Isaascson

Leading Blog

This emotional shutoff valve could make him callous, but it also made him a risk-seeking innovator. “He Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. If you’re unwilling to invest in a company, he felt, you shouldn’t qualify as a founder. Delete any part or process you can. But not Musk. “He

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Research Explores The Shortcomings Of Corporate Venturing

The Horizons Tracker

Whereas historically, the bulk of corporate innovation would be via in-house R&D programs, or mergers and acquisitions, the last decade has seen a considerable rise in corporate venturing. Indeed, during 2020, around $70 billion was invested by corporates in startups, which represented around 25% of all VC deals. A mixed bag.

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Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. The Administrator manages process with predictability and efficiency.

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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

Process automation professionals. The companies and research studies in our analysis included: Deloitte, LinkedIn, IBM Institute for Business Value, Indeed.com, Institute for the Future (IFTF), McKinsey, Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), Udemy, Willis Towers Watson, and World Economic Forum. Big data specialists.

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Why Underdogs Win (More Often Than They Should)

LDRLB

Nurmohamed encouraged one group of participants to see themselves as underdogs, as underrated, as if the companies that rejected them just didn’t understanding the true value they could provide to the organization. If the public had a positive opinion of the company that they worked for, then they were more likely to be satisfied.

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Is Charisma Innate, Or Can You Learn It?

Center for Creative Leadership

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. He told me she was smart, very hardworking, and had been with the company in various accounting roles for the past 4 years, most recently as comptroller.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

You started a company. Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. To scale you need a playbook so that everyone has clarity about the processes and systems that get stuff done.