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How Big Companies Can (and do) Innovate Like a Start-Up

Leading Blog

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms. This can result in longevity, higher job satisfaction, increased productivity, and better overall performance in finance leadership roles.

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Are Entrepreneurs Better Off Keeping Their Day Jobs?

The Horizons Tracker

Hedging bets. The researchers explain that the growth in cloud-based technologies has made it easier for people to start firms, which in turn has made it feasible to run them as side hustles rather than needing a full-time commitment. Research from the University of Southern California suggests this is a misguided opinion, however.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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What Markets Do and Don’t Get About Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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Is Apple Losing its Creative Mojo?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, each of these markets had achieved a much higher level of customer interest (and frustration with the existing offerings) before Apple came in with better designed products. Apple will release these products only when they meet its rightfully high standards. Innovation Strategy'