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4 Post-Pandemic Marketing Tips to Help Your Business

Strategy Driven

Businesses that embraced ingenuity and creativity found ways to serve in a socially-distanced environment, and they have learned how to weather the ups and downs of a supply chain that has been impacted at every turn. Right now is the time to get creative and take risks without ideas and tactics.

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Why the Best Strategies Blend the Digital and Physical

Skip Prichard

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and venture capitalist Robert Siegel , this is false – nothing in life or business is ever that simple. In fact, many established companies are successfully countering young upstarts in other creative ways, and many new organizations are learning from their older brethren.

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The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Humans Are Strategic; Machines Are Tactical. In other words, machines skew toward tactical applications. On the other hand, work that requires a high degree of imagination, creative analysis, and strategic thinking is harder to automate. McKinsey has been studying what kind of work is most adaptable to automation.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

When they’re punished, you instill a fear of risk-taking in your employees, and with that you stifle creativity and innovation. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

When they’re punished, you instill a fear of risk-taking in your employees, and with that you stifle creativity and innovation. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms.

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The Pitfalls (and Upsides) of Partnering with Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But that is the territory of entrepreneurship — even with deep financial backing from the rare venture capitalist or angel investor (yes, these are the exceptions in entrepreneurship, not the rule), long term viability of any venture is far from guaranteed and can leave the corporate partner in the lurch. Entrepreneurship'

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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

There''s an incipient venture-capital and startup scene , and lots of small creative businesses. A small group of affluent, well-educated Creative Classers (and a larger number of occasional suburban visitors) has occupied an island in a sea of economic despair. and venture capitalist.