The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2021

“We found that entrepreneurs benefit much more from emotional competences than other competencies — such as IQ — due to high uncertainty and ambiguity that comes with the world of entrepreneurship and even more applicable in a crisis,” the researchers explain. ” Managing uncertainty. .

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Emotional Intelligence Entrepreneur Uncertainty Crisis 140

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It shows that Black entrepreneurs have an even harder time raising money when racial inequality and discrimination are at the top of the news agenda. The analysis found that when the news covers racism, white investors seem more likely to question the underlying quality of the idea of a Black entrepreneur. Finding support.

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Entrepreneur Fashion Media Influence 130

Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée A.

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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? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 365

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

One option to consider is influencer marketing. Many hospitality entrepreneurs haven’t gone down this path yet, but it can be an innovative and often lucrative marketing tactic to test out. It’s time to learn the basics of influencer marketing and how you might utilize it in your venture. Types of Influencer Marketing.

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Influence Marketing Discount Brand 135

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2023

When entrepreneurs deliver pitches to investors, one perhaps calls to mind the image of the kind of braggadocio seen on shows like Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank, where the merits of both the entrepreneur/s and their venture are bigged up to the hilt with nary a weakness in sight. Showing our vulnerable side.

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Entrepreneur Bond Audience Follow-up 64

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

I have watched entrepreneurs and executives initially trivialize the value of influence in a capital transaction, only to regret it down the road. Savvy CEOs simply aren’t in a rush to close the deal and secure the funding if it means sacrificing knowledge, experience and influence.

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Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 304

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 12, 2021

It suggests that action orientated training can help to unlock this potential and unleash the entrepreneur in us all. “There are a lot of studies in the literature that focus on, for example, how entrepreneurship education influences the students’ competence in starting a business,” the researchers say. but globally.

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Entrepreneur Education Learning-by-Doing Skills 87

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Entrepreneurship, economic, formal institutional, and cultural characteristics are intricately intertwined and reciprocally influence one another, making it challenging to discern the role of culture in entrepreneurship.

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Sample Entrepreneur Influence Diversity 119

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

One of the biggest challenges that you will face as an entrepreneur is identifying various means to expand your business, but that does not mean it is highly impossible. Growth is a significant indicator that your business is on the right track and involves taking more risks, developing innovative ideas, and identifying the right audience.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Strategy Franchising Media 132

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

Identify Your Key Influencers. When trying to determine who your key influencers are, look for the stakeholders who have the most significant impact on your organization’s growth. In addition, key influencers are the stakeholders who cannot easily be replaced, such as a time-tested supplier or a top-performing department.

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Consensus Influence Bottom-up Incentives 188

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 14, 2021

Each year INSEAD produces the Global Innovation Index, in which countries are ranked based upon the support they provide to innovators. It’s perhaps fitting, therefore, that despite these things not being the sexiest aspect of innovation, that a new paper from Wharton highlights their importance in startup creation and growth.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Quality Sample 128

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Previous research has shown that gender can play a role, with female entrepreneurs less likely to receive investment than their male peers, and now new research from Stanford highlights how race can also play a part in the way investments are made. are women or people of color.

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Influence Diversity Entrepreneur Operations 73

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 4, 2023

population was Hispanic, and yet just 6% of businesses were owned by Hispanic entrepreneurs. The situation was similarly dismal for African Americans, who comprise 12% of the population but just 2% of entrepreneurs. This leads to their underrepresentation in positions of influence and mobility in adulthood.

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Entrepreneur Review Resources Finance 119

Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

But on the other side of that equation is the influence of sound business practices, planning, due diligence, and adaptability on business success. 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.

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Management Due Diligence Open-book Competitive Advantage 289

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Isn’t that for directors of nonprofits and starry-eyed Millennial entrepreneurs with idealistic dreams? Leaders are in a position to influence how we think about the relationship between empathy and industry. The Empathy Edge definitively answers these questions showing how for-profit leaders can use empathy to gain the upper hand.

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Loyalty Open-book 349

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2021

Such calls for more financial support for startups are not new, with former EU research commission Carlos Moedas arguing for an EU-run venture fund back in 2015, which eventually became the European Innovation Council (EIC) this year. are not initially into the grand vision of young entrepreneurs and young startups.”

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Proposal Media 130

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2022

The report is the culmination of interviews with around 150,000 individuals from 50 countries and allows GEM to look at both the rates of entrepreneurship in each country as well as things like the motivation and attitude of entrepreneurs globally. Starting up. ” Limited ambitions. . ” Limited ambitions. Tech-enabled.

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Entrepreneur Report Motivation Uncertainty 131

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In 2020, it was estimated that over a quarter of employees would like to be entrepreneurs, driven in large part by their dissatisfaction with corporate life. It’s widely accepted that entrepreneurship is vital for economic vitality both in terms of the new innovations that come to market and the jobs that are created.

Social Capital 84

Social Capital Entrepreneur Policies Constraint 84

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

Knowing what to do While extensive research has examined the process of developing and commercializing new products, one crucial aspect of technology commercialization has received comparatively little attention: what form should the innovation take when sold in the market?

Supply Chain 94

Supply Chain Entrepreneur Marketing Strategy Technology 94

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

. “Predicting the course of environmental change is difficult, but entrepreneurs who can synchronize their predictions with their decisions about team composition perform better,” the researchers explain.

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Diversity Organization Team Entrepreneur 119

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

Organizations need leaders who drive engagement, innovation, and outstanding client experiences. If you enjoyed this video, you may also enjoy our upcoming webinar with award-winning entrepreneur and author Bonnie Marcus on the subtle ways we give away our power, and how to get it back. How can you be this type of leader?

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 8, 2023

The fast-paced and innovative nature of the tech sector necessitates rapid experimentation and adaptation. Entrepreneurs and startups embrace the mindset of failing fast to quickly test ideas, pivot where necessary, and optimise their products or services for the market.

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Consultative Lean Manufacturing Agility Article 98

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The discrepancies in venture capital funding to female entrepreneurs are well known, but society also tends to view men as more creative and innovative than women, even when the reality is quite the opposite. Earlier this year I chaired a panel about female entrepreneurship at IE University’s LegalTech event in London.

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Entrepreneur Ethics Career Commitment 52

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It’s a vision that inevitably results in limits in the number of people who perceive themselves as entrepreneurs, and research from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology highlights the crucial role education can play in widening the number of people who perceive themselves as entrepreneurs. Breaking down the wall.

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Entrepreneur Education Media Learning-by-Doing 127

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2020

The research suggests that the best entrepreneurs today tend to gravitate towards cities where they can tap into a strong social network, whilst also obtaining a degree of financial support. In total, they analyzed nearly 1,500 American entrepreneurs, all of whom had secured funding over the last 10 years. ” Support networks. .

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Entrepreneur Real Estate Finance Conference 133

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2022

With venture capitalists often investing huge sums in startups, one would assume that these investments are based on detailed assessments of the capabilities of the startups and the entrepreneurs behind them. Alas, research from Rice University suggests that isn’t really the case. Raising capital.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur IPO Finance 119

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2023

However, the duration needed for entrepreneurs to launch their ventures can vary, depending on how swiftly they shape their ideas, secure financing, develop prototypes, and undertake other essential steps. In rapidly changing environments, swift entrepreneurs can capitalize on fleeting opportunities.

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Development Entrepreneur Long-term Planning 64

Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”. But this proved to be a false conclusion.

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How To Innovation Creativity Entrepreneur 106

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

For instance, a few years ago, research from VU University Amsterdam showed that we tend to have an unconscious bias towards viewing innovation and creativity as a young person’s game. This bias has also infiltrated the venture capital community, with Paul Graham famously quipping that he rarely backed any entrepreneur older than 32.

Entrepreneur 142

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Competitive Advantage Innovation 142

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As a leader, you have the power and influence to help your team members develop new habits that can make them more productive. As hard as it is for us doers to believe, all the evidence says that maximum effectiveness and innovation start with…STOPPING. I will stop allowing interruptions that hijack my schedule. Yes, it’s tough to do.

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Tactics Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 236

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 31, 2021

Despite evidence, such as research from MIT and Northwestern University, which highlighted that the best entrepreneurs are often older entrepreneurs, ageism remains a significant problem across the workforce. Lifelong learning. Research from MIT reminds us that we shouldn’t rest on our laurels, however.

Cost-Benefit Analysis 131

Cost-Benefit Analysis Learning-by-Doing Entrepreneur Cost 131

Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

Some of the biggest influencers in the world are musicians, and they can teach us a multitude of ways to guide our own career and leader positions. Many musicians had to find other innovative techniques to continue to share their music, and without the support of fans or a following, they could not have sustained their careers.

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Power Team Leadership Short-term 226

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“And this really got us thinking about how we could help environmental entrepreneurs succeed.” The ideal combination for companies seemed to be when they operated in markets where there was both a pro-market and pro-environment influence. “We call these industries ‘moral markets,'” the authors say.

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Crisis Morale Environment Entrepreneur 132

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

She is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments influence people. Dorie Clark – Dorie is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and the World Economic Forum blog.

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

model, which is supported by the Estonian government, demonstrates the paths to new business models that focus not only on providing services, but also on fostering a collaborative platform for all to innovate. The E-Residency initiative and its succeeding 2.0 At e-Residency, we believe there exists a viable solution. .

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Pharmaceuticals Entrepreneur Politics Globalization 71