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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Who’s Hiring (and Who Isn’t) in Five Charts

Harvard Business Review

labor market since the Great Depression, we learned Friday that 203,000 new jobs were created in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 7%. And while Clay Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever say the consultants are next , it’s not showing up so far in the jobs numbers.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

In the hospitality sector, for example, they invest upfront into luxury real estate and equipment, but rarely into training programs. Some may have short onboarding programs for new employees; at best some multinational companies will budget similar training budgets as in their developed market businesses.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Based on his personal experiences and interviews — with everyone from expert car salesmen to real estate salespeople — Cialdini's book is riveting and, yes, persuasive. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Based on his personal experiences and interviews — with everyone from expert car salesmen to real estate salespeople — Cialdini's book is riveting and, yes, persuasive. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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