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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?” Give them a piece of the business to own.

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Business And Life Lessons From Entrepreneur Miguel Leal

Eric Jacobson

The book is a quintessential American dream story from a Mexican entrepreneur who shares the tale of building a multi-million-dollar business from scratch, complete with both success and failure, and always a vision of hope. Those lessons are found throughout his recently released memoir, The House That Cheese Built. Leal came to the U.S.

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quickpoint: Artificial Intelligence and What is an Entrepreneur

Leading Blog

PG94 (Author of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order ) “For me, an entrepreneur is someone who can combine the opportunity and the execution. That's what defines an entrepreneur.” PG50 “With every project, no matter how small, act as if it’s the most important one.

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Which Qualities Define a Successful Entrepreneur?

Strategy Driven

Let’s face it: everyone wants to be a ‘successful’ entrepreneur. The harsh reality is that few entrepreneurs become successful in their careers, irrespective of whether you use money or popularity as metrics to measure success. With that in mind, which qualities define a successful entrepreneur? Conclusion.

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9 Tips for Navigating the Inevitable Unexpected

Leading Blog

trillion in 2023 and is projected to grow nearly 14% a year in the next 6 years, that's understandable: there's a lot at stake. His new book is Can't Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur. If sophisticated investors are involved — as often happens in biotech — the plan is undoubtedly subjected to intensive due diligence.

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What Oregon Entrepreneurs Can Teach All Of Us About Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Since I moved to Portland in 2010 I’ve become fascinated with a particular kind of business person – Oregon entrepreneurs. So much so, that last year I started to write nearly as much about them as I did about my first love, leadership. That’s why I only take projects I’m interested in. Take care of your teammates.

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Is There a Leadership Gene?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Subsequent to the mapping of the human genome, a project completed just over a decade ago, we have seen a number of human traits linked to heredity and one of the more recent is the quality of leadership. Leadership Development develop leaders leadership skills talent talent development'