The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Nearly ten years ago, a group of researchers from Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and Rutgers shed light on a disconcerting phenomenon: discrimination within the realm of bank loan services, which cast a shadow over the American Dream for minority entrepreneurs.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 12, 2023

A recent study from the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business at Waterloo highlights how female entrepreneurs still tend to benefit from partnering with experienced men rather than going it alone. When experienced female entrepreneurs pair up with an experienced male entrepreneur, the benefits don’t materialize.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2023

“It’s what we call non disruptive creation that allows us to innovate and grow without disruption and social pain,” share the authors W. Nondisruptive creation has three distinctive characteristics : First : It can be generated by a scientific invention or a technology-driven innovation. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

The deluge of easy money into the sector has prompted many would-be entrepreneurs to take their eye off the ball, and whereas Peter Drucker famously said that the only real purpose of a business is to create a customer, the current entrepreneurial landscape allows founders to get rich without worrying too much about that.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. His new book is Can't Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur. Following a kidney transplant, he's continued to contribute to science and medicine. His firm, Rose Ventures, Inc.,

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

W E LIVE IN the age of the entrepreneur. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2024

Franchise operations are as much about embracing the established guidelines as they are about innovating within the allowed framework to realize the rewards of entrepreneurship. Market Research and Demographic Analysis Conducting thorough market research and demographic analysis is non-negotiable for franchise success.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. You can become an empathic leader whether you’re a new manager, a C-suite executive, or you’re simply leading by example in any job even if you don’t manage anyone.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 25, 2012

Since I moved to Portland about 16 months ago, I’ve hung out with a lot of entrepreneurs, in coffee shops all over town. I was a “corporate guy” for so many years (28 to be exact), and while I thought I knew what it was really like to “think like an entrepreneur”, it turns out I really didn’t know.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Uptime : A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the “new way of work” work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

Every executive knows that speed is important. Or, think about innovation. Everyone knows innovation is important. But again, if you can innovate successfully, is that enough? In truth, factors like speed, agility and innovation aren’t all that valuable by themselves. But is speed enough? Is it, by itself, enough?

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CO2

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Thinking Fast as an Entrepreneur. Where entrepreneurs see opportunities, their coworkers (particularly those who have worked with the entrepreneur closest and longest) often see barriers. Executing Slowly. Entrepreneurs are great at generating ideas, but they’re not so great at putting on the brakes.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

From the beginning, he noted that almost every executive he talked to had a "model"—a framework or way of thinking that guided their strategy and activities. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Innovation doesn’t come from a sprint or a hackathon--it’s a result of maximizing ideaflow.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Johnson shares this insightful S-curve derived from research on innovation. People, projects and organizations could be in one of three phases on this learning-innovation curve. A comfort to know for all those entrepreneurs and learners out there! They know they have to be agile, more responsive to change, innovative.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

By Richard Moy Reprinted with permission If you are searching for an executive-education course that will foster networking opportunities in addition to the actionable knowledge you are seeking to build, ask yourself these three questions as you sort through all your options. Does your course foster a group-based learning environment?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Their early investors are a ‘Who’s Who’ list of innovators and billionaires, including Marc Benioff, Founder’s Fund , Khosla Ventures, Bezos Expeditions , and Goldman Sachs. Zocdoc is an innovative medical care startup that solves a nasty problem we all face—scheduling an appointment with a new doctor. Join the discussion.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. We’ve met so many entrepreneurs that we can usually identify someone’s type in a few minutes. Diversity and complementary skill sets are key. We call these talents archetypes.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

Finding the Way : The Entrepreneur's Tale by Cap Treeger. In this fictional account of an entrepreneur's rollercoaster ride to the top, Cap Treeger crafts a series of dynamic, well-drawn lessons for anyone that wants to start or build a business. A tale of mentorship, hard truths, and the path to success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Here’s my candidate for the worst innovation quote ever: Now, to be fair, it’s actually a paraphrasing of Emerson. Nevertheless, it reflects a very common innovation misconception – that it’s all about the idea. Innovation is the process of idea management. Innovation is the process of idea management.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 30, 2022

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Commongood Careers is an innovative talent partner for the nonprofit sector.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” There are leaders and there are entrepreneurs, but not all leaders are entrepreneurs, and not all entrepreneurs are leaders. They look beyond their ego.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Trevor wanted his people to be pillars of innovation and creativity. When he came to me for coaching around innovation, he mentioned how fearful his team was in taking risks and possibly touching failure. It’s most fitting to celebrate failures related to innovation, rather than execution, Harvard Business Review points out.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. The Innovation Group is Born.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

I’ve coached literally thousands of entrepreneurs in my twenty years in higher education and the business world, and have owned multiple businesses during that time. One of the assessment tools we use a great deal is the Basadur Innovation Profile. This instrument measures one’s preferences for engaging the innovation process.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Isn’t that for directors of nonprofits and starry-eyed Millennial entrepreneurs with idealistic dreams? Among the benefits that come to empathetic leaders, whether they are entrepreneurs or c-suite executives, are the following: Empathy is a catalyst for entrepreneurship or innovation.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 10, 2018

Intuitively, many entrepreneurs and businesses believe that the key to faster growth and success is more products, features, and markets. All entrepreneurs must succeed first as specialists, using pivots as required to zero in on the real and current market. Innovation-driven mindset and actions.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Executives and entrepreneurs with an optimistic outlook are more likely to identify market gaps, innovative solutions, and pathways for growth that others might miss. Through regular reflection, you'll begin to notice patterns and opportunities you might have previously overlooked.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

You were born to be an entrepreneur. Aspiring entrepreneurs are instinctively driven to be the master of their own fate and to explore the limits of their potential. From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? But many still adhere to the outdated myth that leaders must be “superhero leaders: infallible, unflappable, and fearless."

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Y OU don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an entrepreneurial leader. Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

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CO2

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The difference between an entrepreneur and a successful entrepreneur is quite significant. Being a successful entrepreneur has nothing to do with your current physical, logistical, or financial circumstances. We’ve rounded up the most important characteristics of successful entrepreneurs below.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Most of us are far more innovative than we give ourselves credit for. Throughout my career, I have observed people who could stretch themselves beyond their self-perceived limitations and attain a far greater level of innovation than they initially thought they could. I noticed that innovation is a “WE” thing, not just an “I” thing.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Forbes Human Resources Council is an Invitation-Only Community for HR Executives Across All Industries. has been accepted into the Forbes Human Resources Council, an invitation-only community for HR executives across all industries. Philadelphia, PA October 17, 2017 — Elizabeth Pieters, Chief People Officer at N2Growth Inc.,

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. Their questions can lead to innovation. Optimizing your team for growth benefits from a variety of points on the curve. Have an S curve discussion with them.

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