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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

Counter-intuitively, many successful entrepreneurs didn’t start with a compelling vision, a wow idea or indeed a workable business plan. The Pursuit of Xceptional Execution ”, I interview entrepreneurs from around the world. Those four entrepreneurs started Globant – now a global company with 3000 employees and revenues of $129m.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

You could call this person the Chief Entrepreneur (CE) — someone who can lead the future of the company while the CEO takes cares of running the existing business. I’ve written up a job description below to make the search easier for Fortune 50 companies: Are you a Chief Entrepreneur? Design/construct a space for invention.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

But as she began to consider her future at the company, she realized that all of the people above her were white, male engineers or accountants. According to the research on successful entrepreneurs, their single most important trait is the ability to persuade.