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The New Beta Way To Lead

Eric Jacobson

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. “The One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha.

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The New Beta Way To Lead

Eric Jacobson

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. “The One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha.

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The New Beta Way To Lead According To Dana Ardi

Eric Jacobson

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. “The One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network.

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

. “There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

Innovation-led growth can square a circle that is challenging modern capitalism: how to generate sustained and sustainable economic growth, built on high-value, well-paying jobs. The problem is how to get there. This is at the core of entrepreneurial societies, and it is a good objective.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank. Wulf noted that Ma studied Jack Welch’s approach and was inspired by GE’s decentralized decision-making. We also learned how to relinquish control and go wherever the market took us. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.