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The Right (and Wrong) Way to Network

Harvard Business Review

Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. Running Meetings (20-Minute Manager Series). Managing People Book. I’d connected with a woman who had recently spoken at a major conference I was eager to break into.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Lessons From BIF-7

Mills Scofield

It’s just not in the mainstream media. That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. Experiment : In performance management, process, quality, workflow, customer satisfaction, etc., Lesson: You can’t build on broken.

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