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Business Dean Search: Uncovering Leadership for Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs

N2Growth Blog

A truly effective leader fosters an inclusive culture of innovation and collaboration, which is critical to creating a dynamic learning environment. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, a good business program must build and maintain a culture of innovation, adaptability, and adventure (i.e., comfort with risk).

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Are Entrepreneurs Better Off Keeping Their Day Jobs?

The Horizons Tracker

When we talk of entrepreneurs there is a tendency to think in terms of Hernan Cortes, the famous Spanish explorer who burned his ships upon landing in Mexico in order to convince his men that there was no turning back. Anything but total commitment to the entrepreneurial cause is only going to hamper your chances of success.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice.

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Do Female Entrepreneurs Need To Exhibit Masculine Traits To Succeed?

The Horizons Tracker

You can read a previous article in which I discuss some of the main ways society currently holds back female entrepreneurs. For instance, society has a bias towards viewing men as more creative and innovative, despite the opposite being the case. Female entrepreneurs. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Research Shows Female Entrepreneurs Don’t Lack Confidence

The Horizons Tracker

. “In the second study, we gave the participants several scenarios related to owning a business, and those who were overconfident—once again, men and women alike—were more likely to introduce a really risky, highly innovative product with a slim chance of success,” the researchers conclude.

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9 Tips for Navigating the Inevitable Unexpected

Leading Blog

It takes an enormous amount of their time, forces them to commit, and requires some degree of funding. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. His new book is Can't Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur. A LL COMPANIES begin with a vision.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

W E LIVE IN the age of the entrepreneur. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation.