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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

Having worked with more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors, hobbyists and side hustlers, they often struggle with when it is appropriate to leap from the job environment into the entrepreneurship maze. When she is not running around as a live superhero, she enjoys time with her family and traveling the world.

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Learning from the Innovation Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

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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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise.

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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda

Harvard Business Review

She'd mentioned her business, Calidad de Vida, a group of day care centers for the elderly, and he'd peppered her with questions, explaining that he was interested not only as a doctor (he was the leading cardiothoracic surgeon at Madrid's best hospital) but also as a potential investor (he'd unloaded his stocks just before the market collapsed).

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Africa's Chance to Leapfrog the West

Harvard Business Review

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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