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Teaching The Skills Entrepreneurs Need To Scale Their Business

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. Skills for scaling.

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Marketing Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

Many people in traditional marketing roles and organizations may not realize they're operating within a dead paradigm. Help them build social capital. Traditional marketing — including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications — is dead. But they are. The evidence is clear.

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The More You Energize Your Coworkers, the Better Everyone Performs

Harvard Business Review

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. Gratitude for help received encourages paying it forward and helping others, as Nat Bulkley and I documented in a large-scale study.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

” I document this extensively in my forthcoming book, The Laws of Globalization , but let’s consider just a few examples. Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. In the U.S., Perhaps U.S.