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When the Leader Needs Help

Great Leadership By Dan

I call this contradiction in the demands made of an entrepreneur the Paradox of Scale; in order to achieve fast growth, you had to be disruptively innovative and improvisational, and in order to sustain it, you have to become intensely disciplined and rigorously managerial. Some founders have no problem at all with this transition.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

Apple , Amazon , and Google are not the only examples risk taking of game-changing innovations. Dun and Bradstreet , known for their insight on businesses, went a notch ahead when they launched data-as-a-service. Even more impressively, their spin out Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.