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

Harvard Business Review

Alternatively, if you’re committed to founding a company immediately, pick an area of specialization up front and craft your job to emphasize that domain. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

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Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All

Harvard Business Review

Berwick presented the report from the independent National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England ( A Promise to Learn — A Commitment to Act: Improving the Safety of Patients in England ) to Prime Minister David Cameron in London. In August, Dr. Donald M.

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