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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

.” Because of her willingness to embrace market risk and take on a role that didn’t yet exist, Feingold spent almost a decade as general counsel at Etsy, at the intersection of her passions — creativity and the law — in a job she handcrafted for herself. Innovate a product or service from within your position.

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Learning from the Innovation Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

In today’s hyper-accelerating, value-based economy the churn of “creative destruction” has become more intense than even Joseph Schumpeter could have imagined. Their answer was Curves—a women-only club which is now the world’s largest fitness franchise chain. Then they design solutions from the customer backward. A great deal.